Series of fifty-three coloured drawings comprising views in Naples and its vicinity, Sicily and the ruins of the temples at Agrigenti.
Category
Books
Date
Jun 1849
Materials
Place of origin
Lambeth
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085662
Summary
Bibliographic description
[62] leaves : 52 col. ill. (watercolours) ; fol. Imperfect: wanting drawing no. 53. Newspaper cuttings (Dec 1857-Jan 1858) about an earthquake at Naples, 16 December 1857, pasted onto final six leaves. Pencil number "297" and pencil note "1 vol" on front pastedown. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; spine gilt; sewn onto five recessed cords; six false bands; remnants of spine labels (gilt lettered): 'Views of Naples gilt textblock edges.