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Title
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Helen Pearson Portfolio
Subject
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Art portfolios
Drawing
Still-life in art
Figure drawing
Watercolor painting
Illustration of books
Creator
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Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
Source
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Helen Pearson Portfolio
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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Late 19th century-early 20th century
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Italian
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL-AA: 2020.3-61
Description
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The items in this collection are part of Helen Pearson's portfolio of work that she created around the time she attended Cowles School of Art in Boston. Portsmouth Herald newspaper articles place her there in 1890, though some of her pieces are dated in the surrounding years.<br /><br />Many of the original pieces included in the portfolio are unfinished drawings and sketches. Pearson primarily used charcoal and graphite pencil. She continued to work with graphite throughout her career, most notably in her drawings for <em>Vignettes of Portsmouth</em>. For some of the works in the portfolio, Pearson used live models, but many of her drawings are of busts or statues, likely drawn from casts or other references. Other works collected in the portfolio include prints of pieces by Maxfield Parrish, William Roffe, and Jacques Lubin, among others, as well as an original painting by Boston artist C.E. Heil.<br /><br />Helen Pearson was born on November 13, 1870 to parents Amos and Susan Pearson. Amos Pearson was a florist and music teacher originally from Ipswich, MA. Susan E. (Miller) Pearson was an artist and musician from Portsmouth. Helen Pearson attended the Cowles School of Art in Boston sometime around 1890. She also trained as a concert pianist, playing with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra in New York. In 1913, Pearson’s drawings were featured in <em>Vignettes of Portsmouth, New Hampshire</em>, a book she collaborated on with Harold Hotchkiss Bennett. She died on July 19, 1949 at her home on Broad Street in Portsmouth.<br /><br />This collection was gifted to the Portsmouth Public Library by Richard Candee in January 2020. It is permanently housed in the Portsmouth Public Library Special Collections. The digital images are available here for research and public viewing.<br /><br />More of Helen Pearson's work can be seen in <a href="https://portsmouthexhibits.org/collections/show/8">The Helen Pearson Drawings Collection</a>. Her <a href="https://portsmouthexhibits.org/collections/show/7">collection of bookplates</a> is also viewable and includes her own bookplate which features an original drawing of a meteor over Portsmouth.
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Scanning, metadata, and Omeka entry by K. Czajkowski and P. Vassiliev, December 2020
Miscellaneous
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The digital images in this collection were captured using a HoverCam Flex 11.
Still Image
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Reims Cathedral after an etching by Haig
Subject
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Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)
Etching
Description
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Matted print of Notre-Dame de Reims, Reims, France, also known as Reims Cathedral. Original etching titled "Portals of Reims Cathedral" by Axel Herman Haig (1835-1921), 1892.
Creator
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Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
Source
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Helen Pearson Portfolio
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Contributor
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Haig, Axel Herman (1835-1921)
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Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL-AA:2020.5
19th Century
France
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Title
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The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
Creator
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Helen Pearson was the original collector of these bookplates.
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Collected and arranged by Helen Pearson & Dorothy Vaughan, beginning 1925.
Digitization and database creation, Jessica Ross, Spring/Summer 2017.
Omeka additions and metadata, R. Nielsen, 2023.
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Identifier
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PPL-MS 1925.1
Subject
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Historic bookplates
Description
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A collection of 336+ historic bookplates and corresponding material from local artist and musician Helen Pearson. These bookplates were accumulated from her travels, acquaintances, other collectors and membership into several national and international bookplate societies. The collection was initially created and organized by Pearson. It arrived at Portsmouth Public Library as a bequest upon her passing on August 19, 1949. The collection was added to and at least partially mounted by then Library Director, Dorothy Vaughan.
One of the highlights of this collection is Pearson's own bookplate, sketched by her in 1927 and inspired by a comet she saw in Portsmouth. Born Nov. 13, 1870, Pearson was a Portsmouth native and raised in an artistic family. Her father, Amos Pearson, was a florist and music teacher originally from Ipswich, MA. Pearson's mother, Susan, also from Portsmouth, was both an artist and musician as well. The Pearson family boarded local artists, including Susan's sister, Mary E.B. Miller. Miller, who earned her living as a portrait painter, lived with the family for much of Pearson’s childhood. Other tenants in the Pearson home included illustrator Max Parrish and Ulysses Tenney, best known for his portraits of New Hampshire statesman, notably Franklin Pierce. Pearson was an accomplished concert pianist and attended Cowles Art School in Boston and was known for her pen and ink drawings in local publications. She spent time in both Boston and New York but preferred to live in Portsmouth where she continued her father's nursery and served as a patron of the arts.
Bookplates have existed since the fifteenth century and serve today as both historical records of ownership as well as biographical, societal, institutional, artistic and/or cultural statements. Various letters that accompany this bookplate collection acknowledge Pearson's interest in the artistic quality of the bookplates and the individuality displayed in each. Her collection features bookplates from around the globe and range from simple, typographic inserts for institutions to elaborate personal bookplates for European royalty. They have been digitized here for greater accessibility.
Date
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The materials were first arranged first by Helen Pearson and then Library Director Dorothy Vaughan between the years of 1925 and 1949.
Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Reference & Special Collections Supervisor, added these items to the city inventory and assigned an accession number to them on April 25, 2011.
Jessica Ross, Special Collections Librarian, created the finding aid and inventory of materials and began digitally scanning the bookplates individually in January of 2017.
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The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Rights
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This collection was transferred to the Portsmouth Public Library from the estate of Helen Pearson upon her death in 1949 according to the terms of her will.
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Paper
Physical Dimensions
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4 and 1/4"H x 6 and 3/4"W
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Title
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Bookplate for Louis XV, King of France and of Navarre (1715 - 1774)
Subject
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Bookplates
Description
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An elaborate heraldic-style bookplate in black ink on ivory paper, assumed to be that of Louis XV, King of France and of Navarre until 1774. If accurate, accompanying letter states it was sent to Helen Pearson from William P. Frost in April of 1945. Frost bought the bookplate from a collector in Paris and gifted it to Pearson. The image is an ornate shield emblazoned with scrollwork and topped with a crown. The shield rests on a cloak of ermine fur, with plants and banners on spear points behind it.
Source
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The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library
Date
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pre-1774
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL-MS: 1925.1.336
Contributor
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Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
Rights
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Language
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eng
armorial
bookplate
ex libris
France
heraldic
Louis XV
Pearson