Collectie Van de Weyer Albums - Van de Weyer Albums

Portrait print of Louis XIII Portrait print of Louis XIV Document signed by Louis XIV Portrait print of Marie Antoinette Portrait print of Louis XVI Document signed by Louis XVI Letter signed by William II, King of the Netherlands. Portrait print of George Washington Portrait print of Napoleon Bonaparte Letter from Charles Lebrun to Louis-Alexandre Berthier Portrait print of Jean Nicolas Pache Document signed by Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon Portrait print of Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon Letter from Etienne Rateau to the Minister for War Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Mrs French Signature of William Wilberforce Signature of Lady Byron Manuscript poem entitled 'Les bons Gendarmes' by Jacques-Charles Odry Letter from Friedrich von Raumer to Lord and Lady Holland Letter from James Baillie to an unidentified recipient Signature of Rufus King Letter from Daniel Webster to Joshua Bates Portrait print of Louis XVII Portrait print of Henry Essex Edgeworth Portrait print of George Washington Letter from Jared Sparks to Elizabeth Van de Weyer Portrait print of George Washington Portrait print of Martha Washington Portrait print of Martha Washington Portrait print of James II
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Identificatie

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MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums

Titel

Van de Weyer Albums

Datum(s)

  • 1471 - 1855 (Vervaardig)

Beschrijvingsniveau

Collectie

Omvang en medium

7 albums

Context

Naam van de archiefvormer

(19 January 1802 – 23 May 1874)

Biografie

Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.

Naam van de archiefvormer

(1817-1878)

Biografie

Elizabeth Van de Weyer (née Bates) was from Massachusetts and the only daughter Joshua Bates (1788-1864) of Barings Bank. She comforted Queen Victoria following the death of Prince Albert.

Geschiedenis van het archief

The Van de Weyer albums of portraits, autographs and correspondence were given to the Old Library of Magdalene College by Mrs. Mary Van de Weyer in 1976. The albums were originally her husband’s, Sylvain Victor Bates Van de Weyer (1917-1976), Magdalene Alumnus and grandson of Lt.-Col Victor William Bates Van de Weyer (1839-1915), whose name appears on the armorial bookplates of four of the seven albums. The collection was accrued mostly by Victor William’s father, Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802-1874), a known bibliophile of the Victorian era and Belgian lawyer and politician. To a lesser extent, Elizabeth Van de Weyer accrued some of the material for the collection. Many autograph letters were obtained due to Sylvain Van de Weyer’s responsibility for procuring passage to Belgium for UK citizens. However, Sylvain van de Weyer was a notable bibliophile in his day and therefore it is likely that other items in the collection were purchased by him, or given to him as gifts. Some of the autograph letters are addressed to Elizabeth Van de Weyer, and evidently she collected prints in her own right (see letter from Jared Sparks, album 7/f.31r).
None of items in the collection post-date Van de Weyer's death, however the later albums are bound in a smaller format and some items within the albums are loose, so it is unclear whether these were arranged by Sylvain Van de Weyer himself, by Elizabeth van de Weyer (d.1878) or by one of their descendants before being donated to Magdalene College.
Some of the autographs of the most prominent figures listed in the albums have been removed prior to the collection's transfer to Magdalene College.

Inhoud en structuur

Bereik en inhoud

The albums contain engraved portraits, autographs and correspondence of notable individuals chiefly from the United Kingdom, Belgium and France, but other countries are also represented. The vast majority of these items are from the 19th century, with an engraved portrait of the individual on the verso of the album page and a corresponding autograph/letter from that individual to Sylvain Van de Weyer or Elizabeth Van de Weyer on the recto of the album page. There is also a small grouping of older items relating to French historical figures.
Many of the items are undated, therefore the date range of the collection is taken from items which can be dated to a specific year.

Waardering, vernietiging en slectie

Aanvullingen

Ordeningstelsel

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Taal van het materiaal

  • Engels
  • Frans
  • Middelfrans
  • Spaans

Schrift van het materiaal

Taal en schrift aantekeningen

Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen

Toegangen

Verwante materialen

Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen

Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën

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Aantekeningen

Aantekening

The extent of each letter has been described to reflect how many leaves of paper there are, and how many leaves have been written on, to give an indication of the length of the letter. For example "1 leaf of paper, 2 p." denotes that both sides of the leaf have been written on.

Alternative identifier(s)

Trefwoorden

Onderwerp trefwoord

Geografische trefwoorden

Naam ontsluitingsterm

Genre access points

Beschrijvingsbeheer

Identificatie van de beschrijving

Identificatiecode van de instelling

Toegepaste regels en/of conventies

Status

Niveau van detaillering

Verwijdering van datering archiefvorming

Taal (talen)

Schrift(en)

Bronnen

Magdalene College Magazine and Record, New Series No. 20, 1975-1976, p.20
Laurent, P. (1963). ‘The Belgian Archives and the Van de Weyer Papers’. The American Archivist, 26(2), 177-184.

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