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BRACEBRIDGE, Selina, Mrs Charles Holte (1800-1874)
Panoramic sketch of Jerusalem, taken from the roof of the Governor’s Palace. London: Graf & Soret, 1834.
The Blackmer copy of the first (and only?) edition. ‘Selina Bracebridge (née Mills) was a pupil of Samuel Prout; her husband was the Bracebridge celebrated in Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall. She and her husband travelled in the Levant in the mid-1830s [when this panorama was drawn in December 1833] and were settled for some years in Athens … In 1854 the Bracebridges were in the Crimea; Mr Bracebridge was Florence Nightingale’s uncle’ (Blackmer). In 1859 the artist Jerry Barrett produced an oil painting titled ‘Florence Nightingale with Charles Holte Bracebridge and Selina Bracebridge in a Turkish street’ which is now in the Wellcome Institute. Mrs Bracebridge published several other works of her travels including Six Views in Lebanon (c. 1834), Panoramic sketch of Athens (1836), and Notes descriptive of a panoramic sketch of Athens (1839). Mrs Bracebridge was also responsible for some of the drawings used by Flinden in Landscape illustrations of the Bible (1835-36). Blackmer 190; Bobins IV, 1302. Not in Abbey or Tobler.
Oblong folio panorama (218 x 340mm). Engraved title and five-part lithographic panorama coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gum arabic, title and panorama conjoined and backed on linen (minor staining, edge of title strengthened). Contemporary brown boards, upper board titled in ink (rebacked with green cloth, rubbed) preserved in a modern brown cloth portfolio. Provenance: Henry M. Blackmer (booklabel; sale Sotheby’s, 11-13 October 1989, lot 894).
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