An album of forty-three portrait studies from the circle of the Cheney family (vol. I) in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters including: Marquis and Marchioness of Morando; Teresa, Marchese Morando1; Mme Morando; Lady Elizabeth Foster2, afterwards Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire (illustrated, a); Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire2, Florence 1793 (illustrated b); Marchioness of Abercorn, 1794; Lady Anne Hatton3, 1794; Dowager Lady Cowper, Florence, 1792 (illustrated, c); Mrs G Ellis as Una, 1793; Miss Gascoyne4 as Agrippina, 1794; Mr John Carr5, Rome, 1792; Mnemosyne, a muse from the Villa Borghese '94'; Emma Hamilton6 as Santa Rosalia, Naples 1793 (illustrated, d); Lady Caroline Letitia Monck7 in the character of Una, July 1792 (illustrated, e); Calliope, a statue from the Villa Borghese; Lady Charlemont and Lady Leitrim, Mrs Bermingham's daughter, 1793; Anne, Countess of Charlemont8, 1794; Lady Charlemont as Psyche (2); Mrs Fagan, a Siennese; Ralph Carr9 with his wife and child at Dunston Hill, 1791 (illustrated, f); Mrs Ralph Carr9 and her three eldest children with Mrs Cheney and her eldest son, Robert Henry Cheney at Dunston Hill, 1801; Mrs F Gregg, 1809; Mrs Webb and Holden Webb; Captain Machell10; Miss Machell of Beverley; Mrs Sykes; Miss Ellison, afterwards Mrs H Sibthorpe; The Misses Pole; Miss Croft of Beverley (2); Mrs Bolton-Hall; Miss Chapman; Reverend Charles Holden; Colonel Thomas11(2); Sir John Anderson and his wife; Mr Webb; Mr Beverley; Harriet Margaret Cheney, London, Septr. 1829; Ralph Carr, 1807; and two others

1. Marchese Morando, perhaps a member of the noble Bolognese Bevilacqua family (see lot 21).
2. Lady Elizabeth Foster (1759-1824), for many years the mistress of the 5th Duke of Devonshire and following the death of his first wife in 1809, the famous Georgiana (1757-1806), she married him. She had turned down a proposal from Gibbon.
3. Lady Anne Jane Gore (d.1827), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Arran, she married (1) Henry Hatton of Clonard; and (2) in 1800, the 1st Marquess of Abercorn (1756-1818).
4. Miss Gascoyne, probably Frances Mary (d.1839), the daughter of Bamber Gascoyne. She was a great heiress and, in 1821, she married the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (1791-1868) whose family name became Gascoyne-Cecil as a result.
5. John Carr (b.1764), a JP and elder brother of Harriet Cheney. In 1802, he married Hannah Ellison.
6. Lady Emma Hamilton (1761-1815), the wife of Sir William Hamilton and mistress of Lord Nelson.
7. Lady Caroline Letitia Monck (c.1813-1890), 7th daughter of the Earl of Rathdowne.
8. Lady Anne, Countess of Charlemont (d.1876), daughter of William Bermingham, Ross Hill. Galway. In 1802, she married the 2nd Earl of Charlemont (1775-1863). On his Grand Tour the 1st Earl had set up an Academy in Rome, which included Reynolds, this later inspired him to found the Royal Academy in London.
9. Mrs Ralph Carr, married Ralph, Yr. (Harriet Cheney's father) in London in 1793. Their younger son, a barrister (b.1768) married Caroline Gregg in 1793.
10. Captain Machell, perhaps the elder brother of Major Christopher Machell, friend and patron of Francis Nicholson. The family seat was Crackenthorpe, Westmorland.
11. Colonel Charles Thomas, the first husband of Lady Lyndhurst.