Beschreibung:

Album titled 'Lady/ Emily/ Bathurst's/ Scrap/ Book/ 1818', comprising some 20 watercolours and 70 drawings in pencil, pen, ink and wash, with silhouettes and other printed ephemera, the majority affixed to the album page, others tipped in, including: small group of watercolours of Napoleonic interest (including "Lord Anglesey had his leg amputated in this House at Waterloo June 18th", dated "Sept. 19 1815"; "View of the Bugio Fort & Light House entering the Tagus" (initialled G.B.); Napoleon in profile (after Ibbetson); "Longwood" (initialled G.H.B. and dated 1818); and two pencil drawings, "Waterloo Church" and "Hougemont" by Lady Georgiana Fane, 1820); other subjects include views of houses ("Earl of Bristol's Villa at Putney Heath", "Lord Bathursts House at Cirencester"), "The Landing of the Cesar at Plymouth", "The Diving Bell at Plymouth Docks"; six silhouettes by Lady Hardy including that of a Napoleonic soldier; two pen drawings "made by an automaton"; group of pencil drawings and caricatures by Sir Henry Bunbury (son of the caricaturist) and two drawings captioned "By Sir T. Lawrence"; with further contributions by Vice Admiral Lord Mark Robert Kerr (five), his daughter the silhouette artist Lady Letitia Louisa Kerr (pen drawings taken "from an old print"), her brother the Hon. Seymour Bathurst, the Hon. Charles Percy (two playing cards), the Hon J. Stanhope, Captain Napier ("Mr W... On his return from his travels giving an account of them at dinner in Stanhope Street, 1820"), Thomas Hyde Villiers, Peregrine Maitland (whose maternal aunt married the brother of Jane Austen), and many others; interspersed with manuscript poems, charades, riddles and anagrams in several hands ("What does Honor est a Nilo make?/ Horatio Nelson" and "Thus the English have gout, & the Frenchman has goüt/ And what fills a French heart fills an Englishman's shoe"), cut signatures and a note from Mr Gore sending "the Queen's footman to enquire if the Countess of Bathurst is in London & has been at Court within the twelvemonth" dated 9 March 1818; printed ephemera including three theatre bills from the Theatre, Mont St Martin, 1817; and two linen-backed printed and embossed tickets for the coronation of George IV issued to The Lady Emily Bathurst, one signed by Frederick Duke of York, c.90 leaves, contemporary black morocco gilt with brass clasp, titled in gilt on red spine label, g.e., 4to (234 x 178mm.), c.1818-1823