Crimea

Album of 73 watercolours, drawings, photographs and prints, oblong folio (390 x 530mm.), comprising 40 watercolours, 22 pencil drawings (some with ink), 4 lithographed prints by Henri Durand-Brager and 7 albumen photographs of paintings, mounted on 31 leaves, in a contemporary calf-backed cloth binding, lettered on upper cover as noted above, prints damp-stained and spotted, occasional slight spotting elsewhere, binding damp-stained and worn

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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The watercolours and drawings, which appear to be by a number of different hands, depict views (some showing the pursuance and effects of war), encampments and figures (mostly army personnel).