Sketch Book of Alice Milligan, circa 1891

Item — Volume: 1

Call Number: MS K25

Scope and Contents

Includes pencil and pen sketches of landscape and portraits, ranging from rough sketches to finished work. Some of the landscape scenes are identified by place name and date (dates are in the period February-May 1891). Some of the portraits are identified by first name or initials; only 1 surname is given.

Dates

Creation: circa 1891

Extent

1 volume : Title on front cover: "Sketch Book." Binding: Black cover with elastic fastener, now detached at one end. ; 22 cm high x 24 cm wide

Additional Description

General

Authorship and Dating: Note [by P.S. O'Hegarty?] on first page: "Alice Milligan's Sketch Book. The writing on the few sketches that have writing is hers." Some of the landscape sketches are dated, all in the period February- May 1891. During 1891 Alice Milligan was living in Dublin, and identified landscape sketches are from that area.. A rough portrait sketch in pencil shows the bust of a man wearing a hat; although unidentified, it closely resembles (in reverse) a more finished pen-and-ink sketch of the Irish politician, Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), that she drew in her diary after seeing him on June 7, 1891 (see Sheila Turner Johnson, Alice: A Life of Alice Milligan, Omagh: Colourpoint Press, 1994), p.51).