Description

Moritz (Friedrich Wilhelm, 1783-1855) and others. Album comprising 35 drawings and watercolours, five watercolours by Moritz, including the 'Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence' signed and dated '1829', the other 4 unsigned but including 'The Temple of Hercules Victor', a monastery cloister, a sepia view of the 'Inner courtyard of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence', and a view of 'Lac du Bienne', several heightened with gum arabic, together with 30 other drawings and watercolours by various hands, including a fine watercolour portrait by Michel Ghislain Stapleaux (1799-1881), a moonlit scene sign 'C. Aymonier', a landscape watercolour with pencil inscription verso with attribution to 'Cristall', and others variously signed and monogrammed, various sizes between 140 x 180 mm (5 1/2 x 7 in) and 285 x 380 mm (11 1/4 x 15 in), all neatly tipped onto album leaves, some stubs from a few leaves having been removed, contemporary morocco, gilt, spine splitting, rubbed and scuffed, presented in marbled slipcase, very worn, oblong folio, [19th century]

Description

Moritz (Friedrich Wilhelm, 1783-1855) and others. Album comprising 35 drawings and watercolours, five watercolours by Moritz, including the 'Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence' signed and dated '1829', the other 4 unsigned but including 'The Temple of Hercules Victor', a monastery cloister, a sepia view of the 'Inner courtyard of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence', and a view of 'Lac du Bienne', several heightened with gum arabic, together with 30 other drawings and watercolours by various hands, including a fine watercolour portrait by Michel Ghislain Stapleaux (1799-1881), a moonlit scene sign 'C. Aymonier', a landscape watercolour with pencil inscription verso with attribution to 'Cristall', and others variously signed and monogrammed, various sizes between 140 x 180 mm (5 1/2 x 7 in) and 285 x 380 mm (11 1/4 x 15 in), all neatly tipped onto album leaves, some stubs from a few leaves having been removed, contemporary morocco, gilt, spine splitting, rubbed and scuffed, presented in marbled slipcase, very worn, oblong folio, [19th century]

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