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Description

  • containing watercolours and pressed flowers. 1854-1855
Oblong 4to (210 x 290mm.), 30 drawings, mainly watercolours but including a few in pencil, and 26 leaves of pressed flowers and plants, some identified (including where found), preceded by a pictorial title-page in pencil with touches of watercolour entitled "Flora Graeca", contemporary red morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges, modern slipcase, binding rebacked retaining original spine

Catalogue Note

Most of the drawings are costume studies or portaits. Many are identified, as follows: [1. no caption] costumed man; [2.] Agathia Vlacos, Athens; [3.] Panniotti, Athens; [4.] Constantia Loisa; [5. no caption] a loosely inserted pencil drawing of a house with the Acropolis in the distance, signed C. Kohlmann; [6.] rough pencil sketch of Athens; [7. various captions] bird studies with a few feathers; [8.] Albanian bridal dress, Kephisia; [9.] Hydraoti dress, Madame Kriesis, Athens; [10.] View from our balcony, Athens; [11.] Island dress, Kephisia Donkey-boy; [12.] Greek shepherd, Athanase Sillamiotti, Cephisia; [13.] Albanian bride, Albania Nymphy; [14.] Albanian girl, Kephisia; [15.] Greek priest, Papa Lapas, Kephisia; [16.] Greek islander; [17.] Woman of Megara, Athens; [18.] Anna Joanna; [19.] Jew from Constantinople on board steamer; [20.] Marietta Olana, Triest flowergirl; [21.] Triest costume; [22.] Sepp'l Juranka... Schlovac, Gratz; [23.] Moustaffa, Arab priest, Vienna on same sheet as Hungarian boy, Graz; [24.] Hungarian wire-worker, Gratz; [25.] Maria & Peper'l Lipp, Gratz; [26.] Louise Sattler, Styrian milkmaid, Gratz; [27.] Styrian FĂȘte-day dress, Gratz; [28. no caption] Serving girl; [29.] Griseldis, Austrian nurse's dress; [30. no caption] Female figure. Numbers 1-21, where dated, are 1854, thereafter they are dated 1855.