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Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Typ 65
Creator: Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872.
Title: Drawings and compositions,
Date(s): ca. 1846-1870.
Quantity: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Drawings and compositions of English artist and writer Alfred Henry Forrester.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Forrester was an English illustrator and writer.

Scope and Content

Contains Forrester's drawings in watercolor, pen and ink, and sepia wash, illustrating fairy tales and other stories. Also includes manuscripts of burlesque skits and talk by Forrester and receipted bills for his art work.

Container List

• (1) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Facial changes; the British workman. A.MS.(unsigned); [n.p., n.d.] 5s.(5p.)
  Text for a chalk-talk; without illustrations.

• (2) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] The sphinx. A.MS.(unsigned); [n.p., n.d.] 3s.(3p.)
  Text for a burlesque skit.

• (3) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [The professor of magic] A.MS.(unsigned); [n.p., n.d.] 6s.(8p.)
  Text for a burlesque skit.

• (4) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] A scene -- seen every day... A.MS.(unsigned); [n.p., n.d.] 7s.(9p.)
  Text for a burlesque skit.

• (5) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Rudaki, or The slave that freed his master. MS.(unidentified hand); [n.p., ca.1855] 29f.(55p.)
  Original marbled wrappers.
  Illustrated with 10 watercolors by Forrester of scenes and costumes.

• (6) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] The princess Rosetta. 8 pen-and-ink drawings with cover design; [n.p., n.d.] 1v.
  Bookplate of John Ayris.

• (7) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Blue beard. 8 pen-and-ink drawings with cover design; [n.p., n.d.] 1v.
  Bookplate of John Ayris.

• (8) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [The giant and the dwarf] 16 pen-and-ink drawings; [n.p., 1857] 8s.(16p.)

• (9) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [Railways; comic sketches] 5 wash-drawings; [n.p., n.d.] 1v.

• (10) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Beauty and the beast. 10 pen-and-ink drawings and cover design; [n.p., 1854] 11s.(11p.)
  Illustrating Julia Corner's version in the series Little plays for little actors.

• (11) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] The white cat [and other illustrations for fairy tales] 13 pen, wash, and china white drawings; [n.p., n.d.] 13s.(13p.)

• (12) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] The little pilgrim. 12 pen-and-ink drawings, with cover design; [n.p., 1856] 1v.

• (13) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [Illustrations for fairy-tales, with grotesque borders] 8 pen-and-ink drawings; [n.p., n.d.] 8s.(8p.)

• (14) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [Gruffen Swillendrinken, ]or The reproof of the brutes. 16 pen-and-ink and pencil drawings, with cover-design; [n.p., 1856] 17s.(17p.)

• (15) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Time & his lesson. 8 pen-and-ink drawings, with cover-design; [n.p.] 1856. 10f.(9p.)
  Bookplate of John Ayris.

• (16) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] The nose tree. 8 pen-and-ink drawings, with cover-design; [n.p., n.d.] 10f.(9p.)
  Bookplate of John Ayris.

• (17) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Whittington & his cat. 12 pen-and-ink drawings, with cover-design; [n.p., 1856] 7s.(13p.)
  Illustrating Julia Corner's version in the series Little plays for little actors.

• (18) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] Sainte Impudentia, or A pylgrymage to Westmynster. 6 pen-and-ink drawings, in lithographed cover; [n.p., n.d.] 7f.(7p.)

• (19) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] [Drawings, illustrating various fairy tales etc.] 28 pen-and-ink, sepia wash, and china white drawings; [n.p., n.d.] 28s.(28p.)

• (20) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] A.MS.s.(Alfred Crowquill); [n.p.] 1 Jan 1846. 1s.(1p.)
  Receipted bill for work done for Messrs. Grant & Griffith in Dec 1845.

• (21) [Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872] MS.s.(Alfred Crowquill); London, 13 Aug 1853. 1s.(1p.)
  Receipt for payment by Messrs. Grant & Griffith for copyright of The careless chicken.