Binding - a mid-Victorian lady's morocco folio of watercolou...

Hammer

£170

Binding - a mid-Victorian lady's morocco folio of watercolours, illustrated by M. Louisa Marshall, dated 1859 (but containing some earlier and later works), in total 26 works on paper, of which 25 are mounted watercolours and 1 is a loosely-inserted pencil drawing still life, the watercolours are mostly landscapes, including Italian named-views in and around the Palatine and Alban Hills of and near Rome, British views include unnamed Scottish Highland landscapes, the Norman Adel Church near Leeds in 1839, coastal views, etc., there are two accomplished figural studies, however Marshall seems to be more inclined towards architecture, most pictures are 25cm x 36cm or vice-versa, finely bound in contemporary brown morocco gilt by Holloway, stamped, the covers with a graduating triple-fillet enclosing a scrolling foliate roll, the upper-cover gilt-metal mounted in relief with the owner's monogram, six-compartment spine of raised bands enclosing foliate tendrils, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, medium folio (48cm x 37cm), [1]