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The elephant's ball and grand fête champêtre (plate [5])
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| Title | The elephant's ball and grand fête champêtre (plate [5]) |
| Author | W.B.; Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914 (introduction) |
| Publisher | Griffith & Farran
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| Publisher Location | England -- London |
| Publication Date | 1883 |
| Printer | Field & Tuer (London)
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| Illustrator | Mulready, William, 1786-1863
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--wood engravings
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| Notes | Illustrated with uncolored wood engravings.
All pages have blank versos.
Facsimile reprint of the 1807 edition published by J. Harris (London).
Popular nursery rhyme that was part of the series "Harris's Cabinet."
Printed on the cover: Intended as a companion to those much admired pieces, The Butterfly's Ball, and The Peacock "At Home."
In response to the insects' and birds' balls and feasts, the elephant decides to throw a party of his own. The story is written in verse.
"The musical band, on a terrace appearing, performed many tunes that enchanted the hearing; the ape, on the haut-boy [oboe] much science displayed. The monkey the fiddle delightfully played. The Orang-Outang [orangutan] touched the harp with great skill, the ass beat the drum, with effect and good will, and the squirrel kept ringing his merry bells still." |
| Contextual Notes | John Harris was the successor of E. Newbery. In 1807, he began publishing the very popular Harris's Cabinet series of which the most popular titles were The Butterfly's Ball, The Peacock at Home, The Elephant's Ball, and The Lion's Masquerade. In 1883, Harris' successors, Griffith and Farran, reprinted these four titles using facsimile reproductions of the text and illustrations from the Flaxman collection.
William Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London who is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes (Source: Wikipedia). |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0137 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | x, 16 p., [8] plates: illustrated; 21.5 x 17.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Photographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit A9 |
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