Local Interest - an archive collection of Miss F Martin, She...

Hammer

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Local Interest - an archive collection of Miss F Martin, Sheffield, late 19th/early 20th century: three cloth bound sketchbooks with ties, each 7 x 4in (18x10cm) with sketches, sepias and watercolours of N Derbyshire & South Yorkshire scenes; also a collection of unsigned watercolours on cartridge paper, sizes ranging from 7 x 4 in (18 x 10cm) to 9.5 x 7in (24 x 18cm) also 14 x 10in (36 x 25.5cm), all country scenes; four mounted watercolours signed F Martin, 1887 & 1888, two competent watercolours by JLB: East Hagbourne, Berks 7/9/1869 & In Appuldurcombe Park IoW 8/1859, four others by various anonymous hands, mid-20th century rolled up print of harbour scene signed on mount S. Billin 32 x 39.5cm; Album 6.5 x 8 (16.5 x 20cm) 1898 onwards with quotations, sketches and cartoons, incl. a sketch of Norton (Derbys.) by Charles Ashmore & a print of Wagner; set of four German lithographic 19th century scenes 22 x 13cm, also 7 colour prints of paintings of the Thames and Wey valleys by Albert Bowers, some family photographs and printed ephemera, also 8vo leather bound Lord Wharton Bible & Book of Common Prayer, (Oxford 1846) impressed donation rubric on (detached) cover & contemporary inscr. on flyleaf., along with framed watrercolour of an upland river valley, signed F Martin/1901, [collection]