Early British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures

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Lot 187
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Arthur Abbott

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Arthur Abbott
  • An album of sketches of Madeira
  • some inscribed and dated between 1842 and 1843

  • seventy-seven, fifty-nine full watercolour, eight pencil heightened with white, four pen and black ink, one pen and brown ink heightened with white, and the rest pencil

  • each sheet 35.5 by 25.3 cm. 14 by 9 ¾ in.
including views of: St. Fransisco, the Wreck of the Creole (3), Fishing at Madeira, Carriera, Fountain at the Palace, Ponta de Cruz, Beach Madeira, Camera de Lobes, the Mount and others

Provenance

by descent from the artist until acquired by the sister of the present owner