Beschreibung:

An early 19th c drawing room album, n.d. [c 1820-30], [90]ff, recto illustrated only, including 19 watercolour studies overall, three of which are of native Indian figures, 20.5 x 15cm, two smaller studies of a northern cardinal and a parrot, five little studies of butterflies, and the rest North European topographical studies, a bound-in pencil sketch picked out in sepia, loosely-inserted mixed media sketch of a botanical specimen, trimmed 19th c engraved ticket - New Musical Fund by Louis Legoux, [1787-1817], another ticket for the 1822 Consecration of St Pancras New Church by Stalker, an early chromolithograph of a Swiss Alpine scene, an Old Master etching, 19th c engravings after Old Master paintings, engraved view of North Gibraltar, further prints, principally engravings, but some aquatints, of genre scenes, clippings of periodical illustrations, Bartolozzi, genre scenes, etc., contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, starting to split, yet holding, folio (33.5 x 27cm)