Beschreibung:

Sketchbook. A sketchbook, compiled by Katherine Wilkinson Hedger, 1828 - c.1841, 1st leaf signed and dated January 1st 1828, with ink manuscript throughout in neat hands, comprising items in verse including 'The Devonshire Lane' by Shaw 1828, within decorative pen & ink border, interspersed with drawings and sketches (many mounted, few loosely inserted, several with tissue guards) comprising: 14 pencil sketches, including 'Near Whitby' by Mary, 1828, the tomb of Andre Massena in Paris, the monument to Salomon Gessner in Zurich, Plas-y-Bridell in Wales, Cowper's summer house at Olney (discoloured), and other landscapes, maritime scenes and animals; 9 pen & ink sketches including 3 satirical scenes, Stationers Barge by HWS (pen & wash), Chapelle de Guillaume-Tell at Kussnacht (minor mark at head); a depiction of the Temple of Asclepius, Pompeii in gouache, and a Chinese Lady in gouache on a leaf skeleton; 7 watercolours including Two female Chinese musicians, a Chinese man, a butterfly on a flower, Ansford Church, The Itmad-Ud-Daulah's tomb in Agra, India, and 2 botanical illustrations; a classical moonlit scene in grisaille; a pith painting (lightly spotted, 2 splits at head) depicting a Chinese riverside scene with pagoda and boats, with a few pressed flowers or leaves loosely inserted, 2 pages with small engraved scenes adhered, front pastedown with booksellers ticket 'Sold by Duffield, 12 Milsom Street, Bath', cover detached from book at front hinge, original dark blue morocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, small 4to (Qty: 1) Other poem titles include: True Happiness, Home, Silence, The City, The Tear, The Butterfly, A Comparison, Farewell, A Serenade, The Last Rose of Winter, My Father at the Helm, The Fairies Invitation to their Favourite Haunt, To my Sisters, To the Flower 'Forget Me Not'.