Notebook, [188-] [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2233544
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Coveny, Christopher, 1846-1941
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [188-]
- 2 cm. (1 v.)
- Summary:
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Small album of pen and ink drawings, with text, illustrating Robert Browning's poem The pied piper of Hamelin. It was produced in Sydney around 1884, and is possibly a preliminary sketch for what Coveny might have hoped would be a published work.
- Biography/History:
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Illustrator and painter. Christopher Coveny was born in Sydney in 1846. He was mainly educated in England between 1858 and 1868; first at Oscot, a Catholic College near Birmingham and later in London where he trained for the Bar. He returned to Sydney in 1869 after his mother's death. Coveny's only known published work is Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens (Sydney: T.H. Fielding, 1883). In 1884 he exhibited numerous works on literary themes at the Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales, including a series on The pied piper of Hamelin.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: NLA MS 9317.
- Related Material:
- Associated materials: Coveny's Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens is held in State Library of New South Wales.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Illustrators
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Unable to determine date of publication or creation
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1941
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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