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Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909)
A leather bound album containing approximately 55 watercolours, drawings and photographs recording the Mastiffs celebrated Expedition to Iceland which departed from Wemyss Bay on board the SS Mastiff, 22 June 1878 via St. Kilda, the port of Thorshaven, Faroe Islands to Reykjavik, and from there by Pony to the Strokkur Geyser, and including views of Selgadatur Thingsvalla, Bruara, Alman, Almannagja; traditional Icelandic costume and ornithological studies
mostly inscribed and dated between 22 June - 7 July 1878
16½ x 12½in. (41.9 x 31.7cm) and smaller
A leather bound album containing approximately 55 watercolours, drawings and photographs recording the Mastiffs celebrated Expedition to Iceland which departed from Wemyss Bay on board the SS Mastiff, 22 June 1878 via St. Kilda, the port of Thorshaven, Faroe Islands to Reykjavik, and from there by Pony to the Strokkur Geyser, and including views of Selgadatur Thingsvalla, Bruara, Alman, Almannagja; traditional Icelandic costume and ornithological studies
mostly inscribed and dated between 22 June - 7 July 1878
16½ x 12½in. (41.9 x 31.7cm) and smaller
Literature
Anthony Trollope How the Mastiffs went to Iceland Virtue & Co. Ltd, London 1878