Lot 548
GROUP OF SIXTEEN EUROPEAN COSTUME STUDIES
LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 31 January 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
hand-coloured engravings with inscriptions, including twelve Austrian engravings depicting soldiers, Cossacks and a chaplain, one marked T. Mollo, with pencil annotations; a 'Peasant of Tirol' and a 'Noble Hungarian', both marked Jos. Schaffer; a 'Peasant of Flipovan', marked T. Mollo; and an example marked 'Orden des Horas', marked J. Adam; all mounted in a scrap book, unframed (16)
Dimensions
Largest 31 x 25cm
Footnote
Note: By repute, this scrapbook belonged to either Maria Graham (1785-1842), the travel writer, children's author and botanist, or to Thomas Graham of Balgowan (Lord Lynedoch) (1748-1843) the Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer, and then by family descent.