Brontë Circle Ringrose family scrap-album, c.1835-40. 4to (285 x 228 mm), disbound, 69 ff. (plus 2 blanks and endpaper), with numerous steel-engravings, etchings and lithographs mounted to rectos and versos (mainly portraits and views, many hand-coloured, several apparently Dutch), one leaf containing a watercolour sketch of a cockerel signed 'Amelia Ringrose' in brown ink, together with a sepia watercolour view captioned in the same hand 'The Spanish Pass, Selena, Pampeluna' and a pencil sketch captioned 'Cowslip-Green' (sometime home of Hannah More), two pages containing a full transcription of 'Remembrance' by Robert Southey signed 'Rotterdam, April 1837, Jn. Ringrose', one page with a mounted floral watercolour signed 'L. Krämer, Jn. Ringrose, Mrs C. L Ringrose, E. Krämer, 1838', last few leaves near detached. Amelia Taylor (née Ringrose, 1818-1860?) was a friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë whose engagement to George Nussey, brother of Ellen, was called off owing to his mental instability. She appears to have been born in the Netherlands, where her father Christopher Leake Ringrose, a Hull shipowner and merchant, had business interests.
Brontë Circle Ringrose family scrap-album, c.1835-40. 4to (285 x 228 mm), disbound, 69 ff. (plus 2 blanks and endpaper), with numerous steel-engravings, etchings and lithographs mounted to rectos and versos (mainly portraits and views, many hand-coloured, several apparently Dutch), one leaf containing a watercolour sketch of a cockerel signed 'Amelia Ringrose' in brown ink, together with a sepia watercolour view captioned in the same hand 'The Spanish Pass, Selena, Pampeluna' and a pencil sketch captioned 'Cowslip-Green' (sometime home of Hannah More), two pages containing a full transcription of 'Remembrance' by Robert Southey signed 'Rotterdam, April 1837, Jn. Ringrose', one page with a mounted floral watercolour signed 'L. Krämer, Jn. Ringrose, Mrs C. L Ringrose, E. Krämer, 1838', last few leaves near detached. Amelia Taylor (née Ringrose, 1818-1860?) was a friend and correspondent of Charlotte Brontë whose engagement to George Nussey, brother of Ellen, was called off owing to his mental instability. She appears to have been born in the Netherlands, where her father Christopher Leake Ringrose, a Hull shipowner and merchant, had business interests.
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