A 19th century Italian Grand Tour vellum photograph album, i...

Hammer

£140

A 19th century Italian Grand Tour vellum photograph album, illustrated with two Neapolitan named-view topographical and water and gouache paintings, six-hand-coloured photographs, other b/w and sepia photographs, and further media, illustrating sites in Rome and the Bay of Naples of Classical Antiquity and archaeology, the Vatican, Classical sculpture, Old Masters and Renaissance art, topography, local life, etc., the vellum album hand-scrivened and illuminated in gouache and gilt, the upper-cover inscribed: Roman, the lower: Napoli, tooled and gilt borders, all-edges gilt, silk moiré endpapers, oblong 4to (18cm x 24.5cm), [1]