Album Orné, a post-Regency/early Victorian lady's illustrate...

Hammer

£150

Album Orné, a post-Regency/early Victorian lady's illustrated drawing-room commonplace-friendship album, [n.d., c. 1835 and onwards], including a full-length portrait silhouette of the Duke of Wellington, dressed in uniform, before the Brighton Pavilion; an Oriental pith paper painting of exotic butterflies and insects; two Chinese pith paper paintings, portraits of Mandarins, one of which holds a ruyi sceptre, Qing dynasty, 19th century; watercolour still lives of flowers and botanical specimens; figural pencil studies; a Gothic Revival hand-scrivened and illuminated paper leaf, The Virgin's Cradle Hymn; ink manuscript inscriptions, including the Lord's Prayer in miniature; passages from the Psalms and other literature; tipped-in and pasted-in portrait and other prints, some-proto brail, including The Blind Man's Bride; etc., loose contents, the colour paper leaves printed with decorative borders, others pierced and reticulated, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, the covers with a printed paper onlay, printed 'lace' endpapers, 4to, [1]

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