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• Title:W. Burt scrapbook : manuscript.
  
• Production:England?, 1820s?-1867 (bulk 1820s)
  
• Physical Description:1 volume (80 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 x 27 cm
  
• Links:View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2022 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  The compiler is unidentified. Content associated with the Burt family includes the leather label on the front cover, a watercolor drawing of Cannington Church signed by "Lieut. T.S. Burt" and annotated "Rev. Charles H. Burt," and newspaper clipping of a wedding announcement for Major Thomas Seymour Burt, F.R.S., and Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Seaton Forman, Esq., of Pippbrook House, Surrey.
  
• Summary:Scrapbook of cut-out printed illustrations, clippings of printed text, and micro-writing pasted onto pages of colored paper. Many of the pages indicate an intentional design and an artful organization of content. There is a striking number of examples of micro-writing or miniature writing throughout the volume, including epitaphs, historical anecdotes, poetry, sayings, quotes, short excerpts, aphorisms, and epigrams. Manuscript text is mounted on colored paper and decorated with strips of gold trim. Printed text is comprised of primarily labels or captions accompanying illustration content. The volume features a variety of printed illustrations that have been intricately cut out and pasted onto the pages. Illustrated content includes portraits, butterflies, shells, fish, architecture, scenes, and scenery. Some illustrations feature racist caricatures or are accompanied by offensive descriptions. Notable figures include Billy Waters, Shakespeare, George Washington, George Morland, Blue Beard, Mrs. Woffington (i.e. Margaret Woffington), Richard Brothers, Miss Farren (i.e. Elizabeth Farren), and Miss Greene of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden (i.e. Lucy Ann Bedford). The compiler of the scrapbook appears to have had an interest in contemporary British theater, as many of the portraits in the volume are of contemporary British actors and actresses. Some illustrations may also possibly be from toy theaters.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Subjects:Bedford, Lucy Ann, 1801-1833.
  Brothers, Richard, 1757-1824.
  Bluebeard (Legendary character).
  Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829.
  Morland, George, 1763-1804.
  Waters, Billy, active 18th century.
  Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
  Actors--Great Britain--19th century.
  Butteflies.
  Fishes.
  Insects.
  Shells.
  Theater--Great Britain--19th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Cutouts.
  Cutting.
  Prints (visual works)
  Scrapbooks.
  
• Also listed under:Burt, Charles Henry, Rev. 1793-1825.
  Burt, Thomas Seymour, 1805-1890, artist.