Lot Essay
The daughter of Thomas, second Earl of Ranfurly, Lady Juliana Knox travelled in Europe, and to Madeira, during the mid-19th century.
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Sketches from Nature: an Album of watercolours, including forty-two views in Madeira, and fifty-five others, including views of Crow Hall, Suffolk, the Pyrenees and south-west France Bound in contemporary red morocco gilt by Caldwell Brothers, the boards with roll-tooled gilt floral border surrounding a gilt roll-tooled panel with gilt floral corner- and centre-pieces, enclosing a central gilt flower vase tool, the upper board titled 'SKETCHES FROM NATURE' in gilt, gilt turn-ins, the spine elaborately gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, gilt edges (lightly faded, rubbed and scuffed).
Details
Lady Juliana Caroline Flora Knox (1825-1906)
Sketches from Nature: an Album of watercolours, including forty-two views in Madeira, and fifty-five others, including views of Crow Hall, Suffolk, the Pyrenees and south-west France
Bound in contemporary red morocco gilt by Caldwell Brothers, the boards with roll-tooled gilt floral border surrounding a gilt roll-tooled panel with gilt floral corner- and centre-pieces, enclosing a central gilt flower vase tool, the upper board titled 'SKETCHES FROM NATURE' in gilt, gilt turn-ins, the spine elaborately gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, gilt edges (lightly faded, rubbed and scuffed).
the album 21½ x 15½in. (54.6 x 39.4cm.) overall
Sketches from Nature: an Album of watercolours, including forty-two views in Madeira, and fifty-five others, including views of Crow Hall, Suffolk, the Pyrenees and south-west France
Bound in contemporary red morocco gilt by Caldwell Brothers, the boards with roll-tooled gilt floral border surrounding a gilt roll-tooled panel with gilt floral corner- and centre-pieces, enclosing a central gilt flower vase tool, the upper board titled 'SKETCHES FROM NATURE' in gilt, gilt turn-ins, the spine elaborately gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, gilt edges (lightly faded, rubbed and scuffed).
the album 21½ x 15½in. (54.6 x 39.4cm.) overall
Provenance
Lady Juliana Knox (artist); General Sir Edward Walter Forestier-Walker K.C.B. (1812-1881, married Lady Knox 1862, armorial bookplate); by descent, to the present owner.