[Drawings. Album of drawings and watercolour sketches by Margaret Parker (née Holford), 3rd Countess Morley. . Includes: landscapes made at home and during holidays on the continent; scenes of domestic life; sketches worked as exercises, etc.].
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1871
Materials
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3041433
Summary
Bibliographic description
[62] leaves . fol.. 2 Prices in pencil on end pastedown: 20/-, 30/-.. Provenance: In felt-tip on a piece of paper fastened to the front pastedown with sellotape "These drawings were done by Margaret Holford who married the 3rd Earl of Morley in 1876".. Binding: Quarter green leather (sheep?), paper covered boards. Stationer's label on end pastedown: "Lechertier, Barbe, & Co. Artists' Colourmen, 60, Regent Street, W. 7, Glasshouse St., W.".
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and included in the list of books at Saltram offered to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in part payment of Death Duty by the executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley.
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), amateur artist