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Scrapbook compiled by Fred T Wimble
DesignedSummary
Object No.
96/103/1Object Statement
Scrapbook, printing trade, paper / card / textile, FT Wimble / Leighton Bros, England / Australia, 1859-1935Physical Description
Scrapbook, printing trade, leather/paper, FT Wimble/Leighton Bros, England/Australia, 1859-1935Scrapbook, bound with green leather with black and gold trimming. Heavy paper with card dividers. Pages in both cream and pale green. Endpapers are made from printed floral green and white paper. Ex Libris bookplate located inside front endpaper center. Embossed along spine "scrap book" with some scroll and floral motifs.
Most of the pages have had prints adhered onto them. These images are mostly in colour and relate to various landscapes, men of importance, animals and city scapes.
The pictures were printed by FT Wimble's father or his father's firm. The first page contains handwritten text pertaining to the provenance of the scrapbook.
Marks
bookplate inside front cover c. "EX LIBRIS / PRINTER'S INK / MAKETH / PROGRESS / AND I MAKE / PRINTERS / Fred T. Wimble"insc. signed and dated front page "I have since these / dates considered it advisable / to present this Scrap Book / to my Son George Benjamin / Wimble / as best in the interest / of the firm / F T Wimble & Co Ltd / Fred T Wimble / April 23rd / 1935"
insc. signed and dated front page "My second scrap book made up / from prints on wood engraving and given / to me by my dear old dad and other / Collection I obtained after the time / I arrived in Australia Sep [strike through] Julyl 29/67 / I have presented this book to my / dear little Cobber Rica [illeg.] / Fred T. Wimble / June 1928-"
insc. signed and dated front page "The most [sic] / of these prints are / wood engraving specimens / that my father gathered from time to time / from the machine Printers at Leighton Bros / who were [insert] ^ the proprietors of the Illustrated London News / -my father was the practical ink maker at / Shachell T Edwards - and manufacturer of the / Coloured ink which produced the prints. / He gave me these specimens when I made my / first/only trip to England via America in the / year 1876 / Fred T Wimble / March 1935"
Short URL
https://ma.as/149061Dimensions
Height
365 mmWidth
285 mmDepth
60 mmProduction
Designed
Made
Made
Notes
Design and placement of the plates by Fred T WimblePrinters of images
Dates confirmed by annotations by Wimble in scrapbooks.
History
Notes
Possibly owned by Harry Wimble. (See family details in archives description of 1995 Wimble acquisition.Source
Credit Line
Purchased with the assistance of the Wallace Foundation, 1996Acquisition Date
11 March 1996Cite this Object
Harvard
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