Inscription: Written on label attached to endpage; 'Couvet Val de Flavers'. Pencil drawing of a stone bridge that crosses a river; on either side of which there are wooden farm buildings.
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a seated woman with her arm around the waist of a standing boy. Trimmed print and fading reveals the retouched areas in black ink. Found at Lacock Abbey in a sleeve marked 'Salted prints of early collodion/ portraits by W. (Cozan struck out) Logan. 1853'.
[An Engraving depicting] Sloperton Cottage, Devizes, Wilts., Residence of Thomas Moore Esqr.
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Inscription: Printed under engraving; 'Engraved by Brook & Melville. Sloperton Cottage, Devizes, Wilts, Residence of Thomas Moore Esqr.' Engraving of the façade and front lawn of the country cottage with its thatched roof.
[A Lithograph depicting] St Helena, The Shade of Napoleon Visiting His Tomb.
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Inscription: Printed above and below the lithograph; 'St Helena, The Shade of Napoleon Visiting His Tomb'. An allegorical lithograph of Napoleon’s Tomb shaded by two wisteria trees; in the corner a woman morns the Emperor’s death, she holds a wreath and has an eagle by her side.
Inscription: Handwritten along top of drawing; 'Salerno May 1817'. Pencil drawing of the Amalfi Coast; sketched from the grounds of a public garden with prominent palm tree in the foreground, the bay to the left, the town of Salerno in the mid-distance and the mountains behind.
[Ink Drawing of] Cathédrale à Mayence sur le Mein et le Rhin.
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink; 'Cathédrale à Mayence sur le Mein & le Rhin. 11th August 1822'. Ink study of the exterior of the apse of Mayence Cathedral. A poem about the Rhine is written on the reverse of the page.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil; 'Thurnberg on the Mouse. R.T. February - Cop. from nr Main'. Pencil sketch with white wash drawn by the side of the Rhine looking across to a church by the banks of the river and Thurnberg Castle atop the hill. Probably drawn by Amélina Petit de Billier from a ...
[Map of Penicuik.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '90279', 'Tissander/ Photo-sculpsit'. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Map of Penicuik with printed title underneath image 'H.F. Talbot photo-sculpsit'. Image used as illustration in Tissandier's 'Les Merveilles de la Photographie' published in 1874. Imag...
[A Lithograph depicting] Alassio, Route de la Corniche.
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Inscription: Printed under lithograph; 'G.M. lithog. 1826/ Alassio, Route de la Corniche'. Lithograph showing a man and woman with a laden donkey walk under a stone portico; the coastal down is in the far distance with the sea to the right.
