Item #CL187-49 Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
Ellis Rowan Scrapbook
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Ellis Rowan Scrapbook

c1880s-1909. Newspaper cuttings in a hardcover quarto leather-bound book, 40.6 x 33cm. Scuffing and leather loss to boards, minor foxing throughout.

This album contains newspaper cuttings relating to the work of Australian botanical painter Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), including reviews and critiques of her work, a column by Rowan herself entitled “A trip to Queensland (by a Victorian Lady)” from August 30, 1887, and an interview with Mrs Rowan, “world famous artist.”

Also present is a rare octavo 20pp booklet titled Press Opinions of Mrs F.G. Rowan’s water-color flower drawings, published by The Sketch, and an invitation to a private viewing of an exhibition of the “Rowan collection of pictures” at the Clausen Gallery, 381 Fifth Ave, NY, with admission ticket still attached.

Other cuttings and letters relate to Ellis Rowan's brother Charles S. Ryan, a military surgeon, and to the death in 1909 of Rowan's cousin, Janet Lady Clarke, who was an early women’s rights activist and arts patron. Some cuttings, referring to formalin and "elixirs of youth", are slotted loosely into the pages, a not so curious inclusion given that Rowan had a face-lift in New York in 1899, when such procedures were at a very experimental stage. Ref: NLA; ADB.

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Item #CL187-49

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