The collection consists of original drawings by William Henry Barlett and other material collected by George Henry Virtue of Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., Barlett's publisher. The collection consists of forty-nine wash drawings and pencil sketches, as well as books, primarily on religion and travel which are illustrated. The four books illustrated in the hard-cover album are: Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy, 1851; Pictures from Sicily, early 1853; The Pilgrim Fathers or The Founders of New England, in the Reign of James the first, late 1853; and Jerusalem Revisited, 1855. All were published in London by Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co.
The collection also includes several articles about Bartlett and Virtue by Eugene C. Worman, 1987-1993, chiefly published in AB Bookman and article about the collection published in the American Historical Print Collectors Society Newsletter, v.19, no. 2, Fall 1994.
Bartlett, William Henry