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Letter to Alexander Stevenson.
1811
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- D Middle 83/GC168/Box 18/Small/Artist Biffin, Sarah GA 2011.01542
- Publisher
- 1811/06/12.
- People
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- Author
- Biffin, Sarah, 1784-1850
- Language
- No linguistic content
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Letter to Alexander Stevenson.
- Call Number
- D Middle 83/GC168/Box 18/Small/Artist Biffin, Sarah GA 2011.01542
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcxp68kv89w
- Publisher
- 1811/06/12.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1811
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 22.7 x 18.3 cm [folded].
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of W. Allen Scheuch II, Princeton Class of 1976, given in honor of Meg Whitman, Princeton Class of 1977.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Handwriting on paper
- Item description: Autographed letter to Alexander Stevenson at Norwich, thanking him for his patronage and offering to send him some of her work.
- Signed in ink: "S. Biffin".
- Artist information: Born with no arms or hands, legs or feet, Biffin taught herself to perform a variety of everyday tasks using her mouth and shoulders. She developed a talent for drawing and painting, became an expert seamstress, and performed these abilities before a crowd of spectators. Charles Dickens mentioned her in Nicholas Nickelby and Martin Chuzzlewit.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/603e8658-1037-4e88-ac83-de5265fc9c63/manifest