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FLOWER ALBUM -- Manuscript Flower Album. [Germany: 18th-century].
2° (293 x 180mm). 50 drawings on paper, watercolour and bodycolour, occasionally with black chalk sketching still visible, drawings on rectos only; several flowers with small studies of insects, a few with identifications in Latin and German written in an 18th-century German hand, one later inscription dated 1877. (Some leaves detached, occasional very light spotting.) Modern boards, 'perfect' binding. Provenance: E. Weil, London, 1950 (pencilled inscription).
An attractive album of 50 watercolour drawings, 36 of which are of tulips, the others including of poppies, lilies, roses, carnations, lilies of the valley. The small studies of insects accompanying several of the flowers are particularly fine.
2° (293 x 180mm). 50 drawings on paper, watercolour and bodycolour, occasionally with black chalk sketching still visible, drawings on rectos only; several flowers with small studies of insects, a few with identifications in Latin and German written in an 18th-century German hand, one later inscription dated 1877. (Some leaves detached, occasional very light spotting.) Modern boards, 'perfect' binding. Provenance: E. Weil, London, 1950 (pencilled inscription).
An attractive album of 50 watercolour drawings, 36 of which are of tulips, the others including of poppies, lilies, roses, carnations, lilies of the valley. The small studies of insects accompanying several of the flowers are particularly fine.