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T. W. Gwilt Mapleson

The Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare, 1849

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Medium

bound volume with twenty-five chromolithographs

Dimensions

closed: 26 × 21 × 2.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 1 in.)
open: 26 × 43 cm (10 1/4 × 16 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Accession Number

2018.44.119

Artists / Makers

Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson (illuminator) American, 1814/15 - 1852

Thomas Sinclair (printer) American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1881

Lockwood and Company (publisher)

William Shakespeare (author) English, 1564 - 1616

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Inscription

"With Best Wishes Mrs A H Fletcher"; "Alfred Hewlett Fletcher, May 24th 1935"

Provenance

William and Abigail Gerdts, New York; gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Gerdts, William H., Dr. and Mrs.

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