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Call Number:
MSS 0195
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
12 item (342 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0195, William Dean notebooks, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1874-1878 (inclusive)
Creator:
Dean, William
Form:
Notebooks, Notes, Watercolors (paintings), and Paintings (visual works)
Abstract:
The William Dean notebooks are a collection of twelve small autograph booklets of notes, summaries, and transcriptions from numerous books and catalogues pertaining to watercolor painting or heraldry. Created during the 1870s or 1880s, the booklets are Dean's working notes on these two topics.

William Dean was a graduate of Columbia University in 1855. In 1859 he became a law associate of Judge William Warburton Scrugham, in Yonkers, New York. His legal specialty was real estate, and for many years he provided legal counsel for Mutual Life Insurance Company. After his retirement he pursued his scientific, literary, artistic interests. He died on January 17, 1919 at the age of 85.

The topics of the notebooks in this collection indicate that two of Dean's interests were watercolor painting and the study of heraldry.

"William Dean." The New York Times. January 18, 1919. p.11.

The William Dean notebooks are a collection of twelve small autograph booklets of notes, summaries, and transcriptions from numerous books and catalogues pertaining to watercolor painting or heraldry. Created during the 1870s or 1880s, the booklets are Dean's working notes on these two topics. Eleven of the booklets provide notes from books which describe the techniques for painting with watercolors. One booklet is comprised of notes from four different volumes on aspects of Heraldry. The collection also includes a one-page list of colors removed from Dean's copy of

A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water-colour Pigments by J. Scott Taylor.

The William Dean notebooks were originally part of a University of Delaware Library acquisition which included art books from Dean's personal library. Several of these books have been transferred to the printed collections of Special Collections, and other books were added to the general stacks. A partial list of books from the Dean acquisition, in particular some of those books which were sources for Dean's notes, is included with this finding aid.

The notebooks are arranged alphabetically by title.

The notebooks are arranged alphabetically by title.

  1. Box 1: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes

Purchase, 1986.

Processed by Anita A. Wellner, April 1993. Encoded by Thomas Pulhamus, March 2010. Further encoding by Lauren Connolly, January 2016, and Tiffany Saulter, May 2016.

The William Dean notebooks were originally part of a University of Delaware Library acquisition which included art books from Dean's personal library. Several of these books have been transferred to the printed collections of Special Collections, and other books were added to the general stacks. A partial list of books from the Dean acquisition, in particular some of those books which were sources for Dean's notes, is included with this finding aid.

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University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2010 March 8
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

"An Analysis of A Course of Water-colour Painting by R. P. Leitch", 1874 Sep 12.
Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Initialed by William Dean. Includes an index.

Physical Description

10 pp.

"A Brief Description of Water=Colour Paints Condensed From the Larger Memoranda", [n.d.].
Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Material taken from books by Delamotte, Penley, Day, Barnard, Rowbotham, and Leitch. Includes index.

Physical Description

26 pp.

"A Family Index to: Heraldry, Ancient and Modern by Boutell and Aveling; Manual of Heraldry by Baigent and Russell; Introduction to Heraldry by Hugh Clark; and Elements of Heraldry by William H. Whitmore,", [n.d.].
Folder F3
Physical Description

26 pp.

"Figure Painting Water=Colours, Memoranda", [n.d.].
Folder F4
Physical Description

6 pp.

"List of Colours", [n.d.].
Folder F5
Physical Description

1 p.

"Memoranda of Water Colour Painting", [n.d.].
Folder F6
Scope and Contents

Material taken from Penley, Barnard, Delamotte, Carmichael, Rowbotham, Leitch, Day, and Merrifield. Includes an index.

Physical Description

36 pp.

"Notes From Landscape Painting in Water-colours by George Barnard", 1878 Mar.
Folder F7
Scope and Contents

Bears Dean's initials on title page and cover. Includes an index.

Physical Description

16 pp.

"Qualities of Water=Colour Pigments", [n.d.].
Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Material taken from Penley, Barnard, Rowbotham, Delamotte, Leitch, Merrifield, Day, Green, Carmichael, Whiteford, Martel, and O'Neill. Includes an index.

Physical Description

175 pp.

"Scales of Tints For Painting Trees in Water=Colours From Trees and How to Draw Them by Philip H. Delamotte", [n.d.].
Folder F9
Scope and Contents

Title page bears the stamp: "William Dean, Counsellor at Law."

Physical Description

5 pp.

"Skies", [n.d.].
Folder F10
Scope and Contents

Material taken from Carmichael, Penley, Rowbotham, Leitch and

Our Sketching Club. Physical Description

20 pp.

"A Table of Water=Colours For Marine Painting", [n.d.].
Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Material taken from Penley and Carmichael.

Physical Description

12 pp.

"Trees and Foregrounds, Memoranda From Delamotte", [n.d.].
Folder F12
Scope and Contents

9 pp.

[Untitled], [n.d.].
Folder F13
Scope and Contents

List of colors. Originally laid in Dean's copy of J. Scott Taylor's A Descriptive

Handbook of Modern Water-colour Pigments.

The art of landscape painting in oil-colours.
Scope and Contents

New York: W. Schaus, [n.d.]. Instructions in oil painting. With autograph notes by Dean.

Audsley, W. & G. Guide to the art of illuminating and missal painting.
Scope and Contents

16th edition. London: George Rowney, 1876. With 20 pages of advertisement for products by George Rowney and Company.

Bielfeld, H. A guide to painting on glass in oil and water colours.
Scope and Contents

London: George Rowney & Company, [n.d.]. 3rd edition, entirely revised. With 48 pages of advertisement for products by George Rowney & Company [n.d.].

Bradley, John Williams and Thomas G. Goodwin. A manual of illumination on paper and vellum. London: Winsor and Newton, 1860.
Scope and Contents

With Winsor and Newton catalogue at the end. (Spec ND 3310 .B8 1860).

Bradley, John Williams and Thomas G. Goodwin. A manual of illumination on paper and vellum.
Scope and Contents

21st edition. London: Winsor & Newton, [ca. 1875]. With Winsor & Newton catalogue at the end. (Spec ND 3310 .B8 1875)

Carmichael, J. W. The art of marine painting in water-colours. [no. 5], 1859.
Scope and Contents

London: Winsor and Newton, 1859. With

List of colours and materials for drawing and water-colour painting, manufactured by Winsor and Newton [1859].
Day, Charles William. The art of miniature painting: comprising instructions necessary for the acquirement of that art., 1870.
Scope and Contents

8th edition. [no. 8]. London: Winsor and Newton, [1870]. With

Winsor & Newton's list of water colours, drawing papers, water colour brushes, and materials for water colour painting. (Spec ND 1330 .D35 1870)
Gilks, Thomas. The art of wood engraving a practical handbook., 1871.
Scope and Contents

3rd edition. London: Winsor and Newton, 1871. [no. 29]. With Winsor and Newton's list of water colours, drawing papers, water colour brushes, and materials for water colour painting (1871).

Goodwin, T. The art of mural decoration, 1880.
Scope and Contents

4th edition. London: Winsor and Newton, 1880. [no. 24]. With

Winsor & Newton's list of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil drawing, &c.
Green, Benjamin R. A guide to pictorial perspective with numerous illustrations.
Scope and Contents

5th edition. London: George Rowney and Company, [n.d.]. With 20 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products.

Green, N. E. Hints on sketching from nature.
Scope and Contents

Part 1. 6th edition. London: George Rowney, 1874. With 20 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products.

Green, N. E. Hints on sketching from nature.
Scope and Contents

Part 2. 5th edition. London: George Rowney, 1874. With 20 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products.

Green, N. E. Hints on sketching from nature.
Scope and Contents

Part 3. 5th edition. London: George Rowney, [1874]. With 20 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products.

Gullick, Thomas J. On animal drawing.
Scope and Contents

Barnard's Art Manuals. London: J. Barnard & Son, 1866. With J. Barnard and Son's

Price catalogue of materials for water-colour painting, drawing, &c.
Halse, George. The modeller: a guide to the principles and practice of sculpture for the use of students and amateurs.
Scope and Contents

London: George Rowney and Company, [n.d.]. With 20 pages of advertisement for products by George Rowney and Company.

Hatton, Thomas. Hints for sketching in water-colour from nature.
Scope and Contents

5th edition. [no. 6]. With autograph notes by Dean. London: Winsor and Newton, 1856. With Winsor and Newton's list of colours and materials for drawing and water-colour painting.

Hatton, Thomas. Hints for sketching trees from nature.
Scope and Contents

4th edition. London: G. Rowney, [186?]. With advertisement for G. Rowney products at end. (Spec ND 2241 .H4 1860)

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse. The artistic anatomy of cattle and sheep.
Scope and Contents

[no.22]. 6th edition. London: Winsor and Newton, Limited, 1885. With

Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c.
Hicks, G. E. A guide to figure drawing, 1869.
Scope and Contents

3rd edition. London: George Rowney & Co., 1869. With a 20 page advertisement for George Rowney & Co.'s "System of Grinding Colours by Machinery" and other products.

Laing, J. J. A companion to Manual of illumination: containing borders, capitals, texts, and detail finishings, &c., 1871.
Scope and Contents

9th edition. London: Winsor and Newton, [1871]. (Spec ND 3310.B82 1871).

Lewis, Henry. The Principles of Perspective explained and applied, in a series of graduated exercises.
Scope and Contents

London: George Rowney & Co., [n.d.]. With 20 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products at the end.

Martel, Charles. The principles of colouring in painting.
Scope and Contents

8th edition. With autograph notes by Dean. London: Winsor and Newton, 1872.

With Winsor and Newton's list of water colours, drawing papers, water colour brushes....
Merrifield, Mary P. Handbook of light and shade: with especial especial reference to model drawing.
Scope and Contents

5th edition. London: G. Rowney & Co., [ca. 1880]. With advertisement for G. Rowney & Co. products at the end. (Spec NC 755 .M4 1880)

Merrifield, Mrs. Practical directions for portrait painting in water-colours.
Scope and Contents

7th edition. [no. 7]. With autograph notes by Dean. London: Winsor and Newton, 1857. With Winsor and Newton's

List of colours and materials for drawing and water-colour painting.
Miles, Leonidas Clint. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours.
Scope and Contents

London: G. Rowney, 1868. With A list of colours and materials for sketching in water colour, manufactured by George Rowney & Company. (Spec ND 2241 .M54 1868)

Miles, Leonidas Clint. Water-colour painting, theoretical and practical with the art of sketching from nature.
Scope and Contents

London: J. Barnard & Son, [n.d.]. With J. Barnard and Son's

Price catalogue of materials for water colour painting, drawing, etc. [n.d.].
Noble, R. P. A guide to water colour painting.
Scope and Contents

13th edition. London: G. Rowney and Company, 1874. With advertisement for G. Rowney and Company products at the end. (Spec ND 2135 .N6 1874)

Penley, Aaron. The elements of perspective: illustrated by numerous examples and diagrams., 1870.
Scope and Contents

18th edition. London: Winsor and Newton, 1870. With Winsor and Newton advertisement at the end. (Spec NC 750 .P4 1870)

Penley, Aaron. The elements of perspective: illustrated by numerous examples and diagrams.
Scope and Contents

[no. 13]. London: Winsor & Newton, Limited, [n.d.]. With

Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c. (1891).
Rintoul, A. N. A guide to painting photographic portraits, draperies, backgrounds, &c. in water colours, with concise instructions for tinting paper, glass, & daguerreotype pictures and for painting photographs in oil colours and photo-chromography.
Scope and Contents

7th edition. London: J. Barnard & Son, [187-?]. With

Price catalogue of materials for water colour painting, drawing, &c....by J. Barnard & Son [n.d.].
Robertson, H.R. The art of etching explained and illustrated; with remarks on the allied processes of drypoint, mezzotint, and aquatint.
Scope and Contents

[no. 33]. London: Winsor & Newton, Limited, 1883. With Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour paining, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c. (1883).

Rowbotham, Thomas. The art of landscape-painting in water-colours.
Scope and Contents

14th edition. [no. 3]. With autograph notes by Dean. London: Winsor and Newton, 1856. With

Winsor and Newton's list of colours and materials for drawing and water-colour painting.
Rowbotham, Thomas. The art of sketching from nature.
Scope and Contents

20th edition. [no. 2]. London: Winsor and Newton, 1856.

With Winsor and Newton's list of colours and materials for oil painting.
Runciman, Mercy M. Rules of perspective explained, illustrated, and adapted to practical use.
Scope and Contents

2nd edition. [no. 35]. London: Winsor & Newton Limited, [n.d.]. With Thibault's

General remarks on linear perspective and Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c. (1888).
Taylor, J. Scott. A descriptive handbook of Modern Water-Colour Pigments.
Scope and Contents

4th edition. London: Winsor and Newton, [n.d.]. [no.43]. With

Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials. London: Winsor & Newton, 1888.
Templeton, J. S. and A. H. Wall. The guide to miniature painting, and colouring photographs; with a few words on portrait painting in water colours.
Scope and Contents

8th edition. London: George Rowney & Co., [n.d.]. With autograph notes by Dean. With 48 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Co. products at the end.

Templeton, J. S. A guide to oil painting. Part I. Elementary.
Scope and Contents

15th edition, revised. London: George Rowney & Company, [n.d.]. Title page missing. With autograph notes by Dean. With 48 pages of advertisement for George Rowney & Company products at the end.

Thibault, J. T. General remarks on linear perspective adapted from the French of J. T. Thibault.
Scope and Contents

London: Winsor & Newton, Limited, [n.d.]. With Runciman's

Rules of perspective and Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c (1888).
Wallis, Charles. A dictionary of water-colour technique, principally adapted to the requirements of the landscape painter in water colours.
Scope and Contents

London: Winsor & Newton, Limited, 1885. 2nd edition. [no. 36]. With

Winsor & Newton's catalogue of colours and materials for water colour painting, pencil, chalk, architectural drawing, &c (1885).
Warren, Henry. Half-hour lectures on drawing and painting: chiefly practical given at Queen's College, &c., 1876.
Scope and Contents

3rd edition. London: Winsor and Newton, 1876. [no. 1].

With Winsor & Newton's list of colours and materials for water colour painting, oil colour painting, pencil drawing, &c. [1876].
Warren, Henry. A treatise on figure drawing: containing hints on proportion, colour, and composition.
Scope and Contents

London: Winsor and Newton, 1871. With

Winsor and Newton's list of water colours, drawing papers, water colour brushes, and materials for water colour painting. (Spec NC 765 .W34 1871).
Weigall, Charles H. A guide to animal drawing, for the use of landscape painters.
Scope and Contents

7th edition. London: George Rowney & Co., 1868. With pages 3-20 of the advertisement section with products by George Rowney & Co.

Whiteford, S.T. A guide to figure painting in water-colours with illustrations and brushwork.
Scope and Contents

London: George Rowney & Co., [n.d.]. With 20 pages of advertisement for products by George Rowney & Co.

Williams, W. Transparency painting on linen: for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds, &c.
Scope and Contents

5th edition. London:

Winsor and Newton, 1876. With Winsor & Newton's list of colours and materials for water colour painting, oil colour painting, pencil drawing, &c. (Spec ND 1573 .W 1876).

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