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ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
An album containing 86 botanical and 6 zoological water- and body- colour drawings on card or paper, some heightened with gum arabic, inscribed on the versos in pencil with the vernacular name, date, and location, inserted into 37 leaves, with further slips inserted opposite inscribed with the Latin binomial, vernacular name, date, location, and brief notes. [England: 1857-1882]. 2° (sheet size 384 x 265mm; the watercolours from 58 x 46 to 376 x 241mm). (Some album leaves torn, one drawing creased, disbound, lacking spine and covers.)
A COLLECTION OF FINE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY A GIFTED AND BOTANICALLY-KNOWLEDGEABLE ARTIST. The flowers and plants depicted are the work of one artist, with the exception of a few which are of lesser quality, and appear to be by another hand. The plants depicted are all English, and bear dates ranging from 1857 to 1882 and the names of a number of English locations, including Clifton, Tunbridge Wells, Rydal Water, and Lowestoft. The artist's most prolific period appears to have been from 1858 to 1864, when the majority were drawn. The drawings are of a very high standard, when judged by either artistic or botanic criteria, and stylistic similarities suggest that the artist was familiar with some of the fashionable works on flower-drawing that appeared in the first half of the nineteenth century, such as Miss Smith's Studies of Flowers from Nature (Adwick Hall, Doncaster: c.1820).
An album containing 86 botanical and 6 zoological water- and body- colour drawings on card or paper, some heightened with gum arabic, inscribed on the versos in pencil with the vernacular name, date, and location, inserted into 37 leaves, with further slips inserted opposite inscribed with the Latin binomial, vernacular name, date, location, and brief notes. [England: 1857-1882]. 2° (sheet size 384 x 265mm; the watercolours from 58 x 46 to 376 x 241mm). (Some album leaves torn, one drawing creased, disbound, lacking spine and covers.)
A COLLECTION OF FINE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY A GIFTED AND BOTANICALLY-KNOWLEDGEABLE ARTIST. The flowers and plants depicted are the work of one artist, with the exception of a few which are of lesser quality, and appear to be by another hand. The plants depicted are all English, and bear dates ranging from 1857 to 1882 and the names of a number of English locations, including Clifton, Tunbridge Wells, Rydal Water, and Lowestoft. The artist's most prolific period appears to have been from 1858 to 1864, when the majority were drawn. The drawings are of a very high standard, when judged by either artistic or botanic criteria, and stylistic similarities suggest that the artist was familiar with some of the fashionable works on flower-drawing that appeared in the first half of the nineteenth century, such as Miss Smith's Studies of Flowers from Nature (Adwick Hall, Doncaster: c.1820).
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