Franklin Lushington photograph album and other material
Overview
Photograph album of Sir Franklin Lushington, English barrister-at-law, and friend of artist and poet Edward Lear. Also includes loose photographs and sketches.
Dates
- Creation: 1829-1871 and undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Photographs depicting Corfu, Malta, San Remo, Comet of 1858, Chigwell, etc... About 20 images taken by Lear or Lushington (who possibly owned a camera together) including: Alfred Tennyson, Lionel Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Julia Marshal, Lushington, Edward Lear, and others. Also includes: plant specimens; carte-de-visites (card photographs); some loose graphite sketches (a few watercolor), mostly architectural, signed E or EL (not Lear) but possibly by a Lushington (Edward?); and loose photographs.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Franklin Lushington (1823-1901) was a barrister-at-law, the 4th son of Edmund Henry Lushington and Sophia Phillips. In 1855, he was appointed judge to the Supreme Court of Justice in the Ionian Islands, and the artist, illustrator and poet, Edward Lear, went with him to live in Corfu. They had met in Malta in 1849, where Franklin’s elder brother Henry was Chief Secretary to the government. On his death in 1888, Edward Lear left all his papers to Lushington, and named him his literary executor.
Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- I. Franklin Lushington photograph album
- II. Loose photographs
- III. Loose sketches
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
53Z-1. Gift of Curt H. Reisinger; received: 1953 November 20. See curatorial file for additional information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Lushington, Franklin, Sir, 1823-1901. Franklin Lushington photograph album and other material, 1829-1871: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02592
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu