WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Notes: Found when listed in a Large envelope labelled in Richard
W's? hand ''Illustrations of Palm trees'' containing printed
illustrations of palm trees and a cartoon depicting a zoological
society meeting (WP17/9)
WP17/11 Illustrations of palm trees
Large envelope labelled in WGW's? hand ''Illustrations of Palm
trees'' containing two paper folders enclosing:
17 black and white illustrations mounted on paper, some interleaved
with protective tissue, apparently all from engravings or woodcuts,
most of or including palm trees, including a man riding a horse
pulling a small two-wheeled carriage against a background of
tropical gardens, by B. Mannfeld, captioned ''Cubanische Volante'',
all captioned in German, most with annotations on the back in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, including ''Cocos butyracea | Sketch
from nature'' on the back of ''Am Magdalena | Guadua. Weinpalme |
Lichtdruck v A .Frisch. Berlin'', ''Woodcut from a photograph
(indifferent)'' on the back of a scene captioned ''Mexicanische
Landschaft'' and ''Types of Quichua Indians | From photographs'' on
the back of ''Typhen von Quichua-Indianern'' by Mannfeld. 19
pieces; source not identified: NOT the illustrations used in Alfred
Russel Wallace's 1853 ''Palm trees of the Amazon''.
Name: Mannfeld, Bernhard, 1848-1925, German artist and engraver
Place: Ecuador
Notes: Dates based on dates of Mannfeld and Alfred Russel
Wallace. The envelope also contained an undated ''Punch'' cartoon
and undated watercolour of azaleas, when listed; see WP17/9 and
WP17/10. Individual pieces have been numbered in pencil in square
brackets WP17/11/1-17 but no individual piece records have been
created at 28 Jan 2004.
WP17/12 Images relating to W J Stillman
1-3: Three small square photographic sepia prints, all annotated in
pencil on the back in the same hand (Alfred Russel Wallace's?); the
first annotated ''Deepdene, Frimley Green Surrey | W. J. Stilman
[sic] | 28293'', showing a house through trees; the second annotated
''W. J. Stillman's grounds'' | 28293'', showing woods with bracken
around the base of trees; the third annotated ''W J Stillman's
grounds'' | 28293''showing trees surrounded by almost bare ground,
with a post and wire fence and iron barred gate in the background
from which leads a walking path partly edged with a rustic wooden
fence.
4. Portrait photograph annotated on the back in pencil in Alfred
Russel Wallace's? hand W J Stillman'' showing a man, apparently
Stillman, aged about 55-60, with medium length white or grey hair;
3/4 profile looking towards the viewer's right; seated in an interior,
holding a paper, wearing a short beard and moustache and dressed in
a thick fur coat.
William James Stillman, American journalist, artist, photographer
and diplomat, married as his second wife the British Pre-Raphaelite
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After 1868?-
Before 1913
1878?-1900?
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