Lot 185
Blackburn, Jemima (1823-1909)
Auction: 26 January 2011 at 11:00 GMT
£2,125
Description
An album of 66 watercolours of Scottish flora, various sizes, captioned in ink, some signed "Roshven", some dated 1889-1892, lacking boards, watercolours pasted down, boards chipped and torn at outer edges
Footnote
Provenance: By descent from the artist through the Wedderburn family.
Note: Jemima Blackburn, nee Wedderburn, was one of the most eminent illustrators of the Victorian Age. She married Hugh Blackburn in 1849 and in 1855 they built Roshven House on the south shore of Loch Ailort on the west coast of Scotland. It was here, by the mountains of Moidart, that Jemima Blackburn produced some of her most famous works on Scottish orinithology and flora.