2/15/2023 Hi, Laura and Madonna When and how you succeed, please let me know!
All I know about Lady Ann Cullum (my apologies -- I misspelled her name originally) came from this bit in the Pickering & CHatto announcement that I included: A souvenir of the Bury Charity Fair held at Bury St Edmunds in 1830. Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875) of Hardwick House in Suffolk was clearly > producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples > were then no doubt purchased by Ellenor Jane Lathbury (d. 1859). She was a > daughter of the Rev. Peter Lathbury, Rector of Rector of Livermere Magna - > incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the rectory > there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well for > Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing > justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century. But googling just turned up this auction house's account of Lady Ann Cullum and her journals, letters, drawings.... (auctioned by Sworders in 2018, 2019): https://www.sworder.co.uk/news/the-diaries-of-a-lady/ and descriptions of individual lots, although not the cut-paper puzzle hearts: https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/search/?ic=False&sd=0&pp=25&g=-1&st=lady%20cullum&sto=0&au=842&w=False&pn=1 and her portrait: https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-556---circle-of-charles-robert-leslie-1794-1859portrait-of-lady-cullum/?lot=237458&so=4&st=Cullum&sto=0&au=&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=96&pn=1&g=1 She was very well connected and knew all kinds of interesting writers and scientists of her day (Charles Babbage!). Time for bed! Karen from Karen Reeds karenmre...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:44 PM laura S <lauraroz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! Thank you Karen! This is the type of thing for which I am capable of > putting everything aside until I unravel the making! So beautiful! > > Do you have the link to Ann Cullen’s bio? I couldn’t find it in the > Pickering-chatting.com site. > > Thanks! > > Laura > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM Karen Reeds via Origami < > origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote: > >> 2/15/2023 >> >> I spotted these lovely examples of cut-paper Woven Hearts in an >> antiquarian bookdealer's announcement: >> *Download image here: * >> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg >> >> I suspect the left-hand model may have been made by a novice, rather than >> by Lady Ann Cullen. I learned a slightly more complex version when I was a >> kid. You can find lots of examples and tutorials online (sometimes called >> Danish or Swedish Woven Hearts). >> >> But the right-hand model is clearly by a virtuoso paper-cutter. From >> the bio, Lady Cullen would have been in her early 20s when she folded >> this for a charity fair. It would certainly take me a lot of time to figure >> out how to reverse-engineer it from the image. Maybe by next Valentine's >> Day? >> >> Karen >> Karen Reeds, ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group. >> karenmre...@gmail.com >> Affiliate of Origami USA, http://origamiusa.org/ >> On Hiatus during pandemic. >> Princeton Public Library info: 609.924.9529 >> http://www.princetonlibrary.org/ >> >> cc e.smith@ <e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com>pickering-chatto.com >> <e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com> >> >> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:21:20 +0000 >>> >>> From: Ed Smith <e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com> >>>> >>>> Subject: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] COMMERCIAL POST: Fountain of Love Fan; Lady >>>> Callum's >>>> >>>> Puzzle Hearts; Lottery Game - Pickering & Chatto >>>> >>>> DO NOT USE YOUR EMAIL REPLY FUNCTION TO RESPOND TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT – >>>> >>>> PLEASE MAKE SURE ANY MESSAGES COMES TO e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com AND >>>> ARE >>>> >>>> NOT SENT TO THE ENTIRE LIST. Thank you. >>>> >>>> >> >>>> >> >> >>> *Souvenir from a charity fair* >> >> >> *[LATHBURY, Ellenor Jane].* LADY CULLUM’S PUZZLE HEARTS. [Bury St Edmunds, >>> Suffolk]. 1830. *£ 300* >> >> >> *Three delicately cut paper hearts (in green, pink and gold) loosely >>> inserted in to folded paper pocket, titled as above.* >> >> >> A souvenir of the Bury Charity Fair held at Bury St Edmunds in 1830. >> >> >> Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875) of Hardwick House in Suffolk was clearly >>> producing clever scissors work with coloured paper. Some of the examples >>> were then no doubt purchased by Ellenor Jane Lathbury (d. 1859). She was >>> a >>> daughter of the Rev. Peter Lathbury, Rector of Rector of Livermere Magna >>> - >>> incidentally the ghost story writer M.R James was brought up at the >>> rectory >>> there - and Parva. Probably Ann and Ellenor knew each other quite well >>> for >>> Lady Callum’s father-in-law and Peter Lathbury sat together dispensing >>> justice through the Bury magistrates court earlier in the century. >> >> >> Such delicate and dextrous handwork, considered trivial as much of such >>> handicraft was, survives rather precariously today. >>> *Download image here: * >>> https://www.pickering-chatto.com/PC/Images/Puzzle_Hearts.jpg >>> >>>> >>> If you have any questions, or wish to reserve or order any item, please >>> contact me directly (e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com). >> >> >> *Ed Smith* >>> *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers1 St. Clement's >>> CourtLondonEC4N 7HBUK* >> >> Tel: +44 (0) 207 337 2225 >>> e-mail: e.sm...@pickering-chatto.com >>> website: www.pickering-chatto.com >>> *Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers (founded 1820), are >>> membersof >>> the ABA, PBFA and ILAB.* >> >> >> >> >> from Karen Reeds >> karenmre...@gmail.com >> >
