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MATERIAL: Hand-Written/Painted
TYPE: Manuscript
COMPONENTS: Album; 7 maps in pen-and-ink, graphite, and watercolor or gouache; 6 watercolor and gouache botanical studies; 25 pages of manuscript text giving details associated with the maps; folio; morocco,
CONDITION: Extremities worn; finger-soiling at sheet edges but generally quite clean
NOTES: Owned and possibly accomplished by Annie Shore whose name is gilt-lettered on the cover.
LANGUAGE
English
ITEM ID: 692

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Map Album with Botanical Studies

DATE
Decade: 1850s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: circa 1850

19th-century manuscript album with manuscript maps in pen-and-ink, graphite, and watercolor or gouache, as well as several accomplished watercolor and gouache botanical studies and text giving details associated with the maps. The maps are a double-hemispheric world, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, and North and South America.

ARTISTS
Name: Annie Shore
Type: Author