Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1471 - 1841 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1 album, 44 leaves, paper
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
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.
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
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’.
Historia archivística
It is likely that Elizabeth Van de Weyer was involved in compiling this particular album of prints and letters. Evidently she collected prints in her own right (see letter from Jared Sparks, album 7/f.31r) and some of the letters in this album were addressed to her mother (Lucretia Augusta Bates) and her father (Joshua Bates).
Many of the items are undated, therefore the date range of the album is taken from items which can be dated to a specific year.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
This album contains documents relating to French history from the 15th to 19th centuries, portrait prints and letters relating to American history, autographs of British notables (such as William Wilberforce) and one clipping from a 17th century dutch engraving.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Condiciones
Idioma del material
- inglés
- francés
- francés medieval
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Área de notas
Notas
Album binding description: 19th century autograph album with interleaved mounts, full-bound in tan-coloured leather. Five raised bands with gilt panel decorations and lettering: “AUTOGRAPHS”. gilt panel and border decorations on upper and lower, gilt roll-tooling on turn-ins. Gilt lettering on upper pastedown: “BOUND BY J. WRIGHT”. All edges gilt.
Notas
Many leaves in this album are unused.