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Description:
Irish Album Containing Drawings and Paintings, Mid-19th Century. Large quarto format album containing a pre-printed title page and approximately seventy pen and pencil sketches, and water color paintings of buildings in Ireland and Italy, flowers, birds, small romantic vignettes of ruins, castles, and natural features, sketches of classical busts, and the occasional sentimental images (a dog saving a child from drowning, etc.),some examples of lettering, portraits, use of gold paint, most subjects identified, dated between 1839 and the 1840s, text almost exclusively in English, one drawing with titles in French; one small sketch of a missionary's house in the South Seas (likely copied from a magazine); bound in contemporary embossed leather, sewing mostly perished, binding quite worn, decased, boards becoming detached.
Estimate $300-500
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