Beschreibung:

An album of watercolours and prints compiled by a Miss Gibson, Derby, circa 1830-40, containing approximately 35 original watercolours, pencil, and pen & ink drawings, approximately 35 etchings, engravings and lithographs, a few cut-outs, some manuscript verse and decorative cards, etc., with handwritten label to front pastedown 'Chance Inn, September 21 1830. Miss Gibson, Derby Northesk', all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated green full morocco, with geometric patterned silk inlaid decoration to each cover, rubbed and some wear, with upper joint partly cracked, 4to (29 x 23.5 cm, 11.5 x 9.25 ins) Album includes two attractive watercolours on card by Henry Moore Drawing Master at Derby (View at Matlock, and another rustic scene with cottage, man and dog, each signed to verso), several good-quality pencil studies on paper (one with blindstamp BE & S, Bath): The Sound and Breakwater from under Mount Wise, Devonport, Breakwater from under Mount Edgcombe, Eddystone Lighthouse, On the Tamar, In Witsand Bay, Mount Edgcombe, St. Nicholas Island, From Stonehouse Pool, one apparently signed H. Worsley, others signed Parsons, a pencil and white chalk study of the Queen's Cross, Northampton, signed R. Morris 1837, and a watercolour view of Goodrich Castle on the Wye by the same artist, dated July 1839, several fine etchings of rustic scenes and ancient monuments, signed SFE, and dated 1833/34, lithographic views in and around Dartmouth, several steel engraved views of Stafford Asylum, Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, Haughmond Abbey, The Wrekin, Tutbury Castle, and Shrewsbury from the Welch Bridge, published by W. Emans, Birmingham, etc. (1)