SMGC 2/1 - Artwork - 1600s-1900s

Original artwork sent to the Gypsy Lore Society. Includes:

  1. 24 etchings by Jacques Callot, Les Gueux (originally published Nancy, 1622-25);
  2. etching with aquatint possibly by J.C. Ibbotson (c.1790);
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Original artwork sent to the Gypsy Lore Society. Includes:

  1. 24 etchings by Jacques Callot, Les Gueux (originally published Nancy, 1622-25);
  2. etching with aquatint possibly by J.C. Ibbotson (c.1790);
  3. pen-and-ink sketch of wrens dated 8/10/03;
  4. painting of fiddler;
  5. watercolour sketch of Gypsy camp;
  6. four signed pen-and-ink drawings of Gypsies in Palma, Majorca, by Basil Rakoczi, with print of one reproduced in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society Third Series vol. 46 (1967);
  7. silhouette of Irish tinkers by Gwen Baron;
  8. etching by Erzsebet Aszodi-Weil, with excerpt from catalogue of 1937 exhibition of Hungarian Graphic Art at Victoria and Albert Museum, London;
  9. two pen-and-ink drawings by Georgina Traverso, one reproduced in the JGLS Third Series vol. 34 (1955); 
  10. thirteen signed pen-and-ink and pencil drawings of Californian Gypsies by G. L. Branstetter (see letter at GLS XXX 16-17);
  11. three tracings of photographs and drawings of Gypsy bear-leaders, and drawing of Gabelji woman by Vukanovic;
  12. signed pen-and-ink sketch;
  13.  four pen-and-ink drawings, with photograph, of Gypsy mice by John Chaplin;
  14. two woodcut prints by Otto Pankok, reproduced in the JGLS Third Series vol. 32 (1953);
  15. pen drawing by Bruce Rogers, on reverse of letter sent with three other items (see also SMGC K.X.2);
  16. pen sketch of Hungarian Gypsies at St Jean de Luz, France, signed H.T.C[rofton];
  17. 18c. engraving by Paolo Barbazza: Veduta Generale del Foro Romano;
  18. eight mounted reproductions of engravings, and a pencil sketch, from the collection of Robert Andrew Scott Macfie, with his identifying captions supplied by Eric Otto Winstedt in 1908;
  19. pop-up greetings card wagon by Beshlie;
  20. etching of Sir Richard Burton by Rajou after Lord Leighton (1876), reproduced in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society Third Series vol. 43 (1964) p. 1 from Byron Farwell's biography of Burton, 1963;
  21. pop-up greetings card wagon sent by the Lee family.
Date:1600s-1900s
Reference Number:SMGC 2/1