[Hand-coloured engraving of the botanical specimens: Diphyscium Foliosum and Buxbamia Aphylla.]
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Inscription: Printed on recto: 'Diphyscium foliosum/ Buxbamia aphylla/ Weddell. Sc.'. Hand-coloured engraving by Weddell of two North American botanical specimens.
Inscription: Printed under lithograph; 'E.T.F. delin. 1823/ Sagro Monte di Varese.' Lithograph of a portico of one of the chapels at Sacro Monte di Varesa, with the Arch of Saint Ambrose in the mid-distance and the church of Santa Maria del Monte atop the hill. Lithograph taken from an original...
[Depiction of a water sculpture containing Classical figures and dolphins.]
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on recto: 'Full Size, Mames[?]'. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of An engraving depicting male and female figures in water with dolphins; it is possibly part of a fountain design. Under the image is printed; 'R. Lafage Ju C. Vermeulen Sc.' and 'Copied and printe...
[Hand-drawn map depicting land belonging to Talbot, Enssell and Bailey.]
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Hand-drawn map attached to a larger piece of paper (214 x 230 mm); it shows the boundary lines for land belonging to William Henry Fox Talbot, the late Stephen Enssell and Charles Bailey.
Inscription: Printed on recto: 'Aspidium Filix Mas', handwritten on verso: 'To W.H.F. Talbot Esq. / Lady Elizabeth Feilding'. An engraving of a fern, on the reverse there are remnants of a seal and inscribed in ink with, 'To W.H.F. Talbot Esq. / Lady Elizabeth Feilding'.
[Architectural drawing of the bottom moulding of a pillar.]
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Inscription: Inscribed on recto: 'Bottom Moulding'. A pencil drawing of the detail of the moulding of a pillar, on the reverse there is a section of a circular pattern.