South Africa.- Meillon (Henry Clifford de, active 1823-1856), attributed to. An album of 26 watercolours of South African figures, including tradesmen, farmers, smartly dressed locals, and two of Europeans, with dedication page featuring calligraphic ink inscription that reads 'With Jane's kind love to Marianne, June 7th 1829', watercolours on decorative embossed papers, neatly mounted onto album leaves, each approx. 115 x 77 mm. (4 1/2 x 3 in), minor surface dirt, crushed dark green morocco, gilt, inscribed on front fly leaf 'bound by R. Salter, Bath, 1948', 8vo, [1820s] Provenance: 'Drawings bought c. 1829 from J.D. Gregory's Bazaar, Cape Town' [inscribed on front fly leaf] ⁂ Charming watercolours of the pre-Victorian inhabitants of South Africa, probably Cape Town. The drawings bear a pencil attribution to Henry Clifford de Meillon at the front of the album, but alongside this there is an inscription that they may be by the female artist who produced the dedication page, 'Jane'. The drawings do bear some similarities to the watercolours of local figures produced by de Meillon, many of which are held in the Brenthurst Africana library, Cape Town.
South Africa.- Meillon (Henry Clifford de, active 1823-1856), attributed to. An album of 26 watercolours of South African figures, including tradesmen, farmers, smartly dressed locals, and two of Europeans, with dedication page featuring calligraphic ink inscription that reads 'With Jane's kind love to Marianne, June 7th 1829', watercolours on decorative embossed papers, neatly mounted onto album leaves, each approx. 115 x 77 mm. (4 1/2 x 3 in), minor surface dirt, crushed dark green morocco, gilt, inscribed on front fly leaf 'bound by R. Salter, Bath, 1948', 8vo, [1820s] Provenance: 'Drawings bought c. 1829 from J.D. Gregory's Bazaar, Cape Town' [inscribed on front fly leaf] ⁂ Charming watercolours of the pre-Victorian inhabitants of South Africa, probably Cape Town. The drawings bear a pencil attribution to Henry Clifford de Meillon at the front of the album, but alongside this there is an inscription that they may be by the female artist who produced the dedication page, 'Jane'. The drawings do bear some similarities to the watercolours of local figures produced by de Meillon, many of which are held in the Brenthurst Africana library, Cape Town.
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