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Artist/Author

Anonymous

Title

[Album page featuring handwritten notes by anonymous hands regarding the content of the album]

Title Translation

Description

Two notes, written in different media and by different hands, appear to relate to the sale of the album.

Collection

Crofton Croker Album

Date

[1844]

Physical Description

37.1 x 26.8 cm

Media

Ink and pencil on paper

Provenance

Purchased by National Gallery of Ireland from a private collector in London in 2003.

Notes

Access

By appointment only

Rights

National Gallery of Ireland

Item Type

Album page

Location

CSIA

Store

Publication Info.

Sketches by H.P. Briggs R.A.
Also portrait of H.P. Briggs by (Sir) Samuel Laurence R.A.

Briggs + Croker M.S.

c.1825-1848

£50

Anonymous

Crofton Croker Album

In 1844, the Cork-born antiquarian Thomas Crofton Croker acquired at auction a sketchbook that had belonged to Henry Perronet Briggs, his artist friend who had died a short period earlier.  At the time of purchase, the album contained just ten studies by Briggs of costume details after the Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn (1565-1629). Crofton Croker began to fill the empty pages with details of Briggs' exhibition history.  The list continues uninterrupted until 1826 at which point Crofton Croker records the death of Thomas Foster, a mutual friend of his and Briggs.  Crofton Croker continues the list, with occasional annotations, up to 1844, but then turns his attention almost exclusively to Foster.  The album contains from that point extended notes by Crofton Croker, many of which draw on or quote from the testimony of other friends, on Foster's suicide and its immediate consequences, along with a large quantity of artworks, letters and other other ephemera relating to Foster. The album was discovered in Oxford in 2002 and acquired by the Centre for the Study of Irish Art the following year.

In 1844, the Cork-born antiquarian Thomas Crofton Croker acquired at auction a sketchbook that had belonged to Henry Perronet Briggs, his artist friend who had died a short period earlier. At the time of purchase, the album contained just ten studies by Briggs of costume details after the Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn (1565-1629). Crofton Croker began to fill the empty pages with details of Briggs' exhibition history. The list continues uninterrupted until 1826 at which point Crofton Croker records the death of Thomas Foster, a mutual friend of his and Briggs. Crofton Croker continues the list, with occasional annotations, up to 1844, but then turns his attention almost exclusively to Foster. The album contains from that point extended notes by Crofton Croker, many of which draw on or quote from the testimony of other friends, on Foster's suicide and its immediate consequences, along with a large quantity of artworks, letters and other other ephemera relating to Foster. The album was discovered in Oxford in 2002 and acquired by the Centre for the Study of Irish Art the following year.