The River 1833
2016
Paper, board, bookcloth, ink, colored pencil
7¼ x 64⅛ x ⅛ inches, fully open
One year's notes about the Delaware River edited from the 1833 almanac diary of Anna Blackwood Howell, held in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society. The nine panels contain a hand-painted aerial view of the river from its convergence with the Atlantic Ocean then north to Fancy Hill, the Howell's residence in New Jersey across from Philadelphia. Handwritten text with ink on paper and additional colored pencil additions bound into a long accordion with bookcloth backing and housed in a clamshell box. Unique book.
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