Julia Emily Gordon
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Julia Emily Gordon (1810 – 8 February 1896) was a British painter and engraver.
Life
[edit]She was the daughter of Willoughby Gordon and his wife Isabella Julia Lavina Bennet; her father sketched and her mother worked in watercolour and other media. The works of mother and daughter have sometimes been confused.[1] Her brother Henry Percy Gordon was an engraver, and they produced joint work.[2] The watercolourist Edward Swinburne, brother of Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet, was a relation by marriage.[1]
Her parents lived at Beckenham and Northcourt Manor, Isle of Wight. J. M. W. Turner stayed with them in 1827, at Northcourt.[1]
Gordon died 8 February 1896 in London.[3]
Works
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Gordon's work is included in the collections of the British Museum[4] and the Tate Museum, London.[5] Her personal papers are held in the Isle of Wight Record Office and the Kent History and Library Centre.[6] Gordon was the engraver for Milton's Penseroso, a work by John Milton held in the metropolitan Museum of Art.[7] Pennsylvania State University Libraries hold her "Sketches on the Rhine, and Rime del Petrarca",[8] and an unpublished translation by her of Johann Karl August Musäus' "The Books of the Chronicles of the Three Sisters" for "J. H. A."[9] In 1879 she published 44 etchings as a book titled Songs and Etchings in Shade and Sunshine, using the initials "J. E. G."[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 114. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
- ^ "Sir Harry Percy Gordon, 2nd Bt". Tate.
- ^ "Julia Emily Gordon, Deceased" (PDF). thegazette.co.uk.
- ^ "drawing, British Museum". The British Museum.
- ^ "'Pere Lachaise', Julia Emily Gordon". Tate.
- ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
- ^ "Milton's Penseroso". www.metmuseum.org.
- ^ "Sketches on the Rhine, and Rime del Petrarca [picture] / J.E.G." Penn State University Libraries Catalog. Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "The Books of the chronicles of the three sisters, translated from the German by J.E.G., ca. 1830". Penn State University Libraries Catalog. Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ Publishers' circular and booksellers' record: 1879. 1879.
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