[“To Miss Annie Paxton, who drest as a fairy, stood upon a leaf of the Victoria Regina, Chatsworth, 1849,” in the Blanche Paxton Album on William Makepeace Thackeray]
Description
On this album page a wreath formed of cut-outs of flowers and leaves serves as a frame for a poem composed by the nineteenth-century playwright and humorist Douglas Jerrold and addressed to Annie Paxton, sister to Blanche Paxton, the album’s owner.
[A mock-advertisement in the Floral Album: Album of Olive N. Hannum, 1839–1848]
Description
Here, on one of the four engraved and hand-colored pages interspersed among the blank pages of the Floral Album, the engraver has pictured a wreath of flowers formed from pink roses, blue morning glories, a spray of forget-me-nots, pansies, and other blossoms.