[Crawhall I (Joseph, 1793-1853)] An album of 33 leaves of watercolours and drawings by members of the Crawhall family and their close associates, with several attributed to Joseph Crawhall I (1793-1853), his sons George Edward Crawhall (1834-1909) and Joseph Crawhall II (1821-1896), and others by various hands, including landscapes, trompe l'oeil studies, portraits, drawings of cattle and country life, caricatures and others, watercolours, graphite, some pen and ink, all on album leaves, a few bearing watermark dates '1824' and '1826', various inscriptions throughout with some dated '1850', including an inscription underneath one that reads 'Joseph Crawhall (my Grandfather) fecit' presumably in Thomas Emerson Crawhall's hand, others initialled 'G.E.C.', the majority unsigned, album leaves 230 x 180 mm. (9 x 7 1/8 in), some occasional minor surface dirt, 19^th century black calf, gilt, rubbed and worn with upper board detached, 4to, [circa 1820s-1860s]

Provenance:
Rev. Thomas Emerson Crawhall (1866-1934) [bookplate to inside of front cover]

⁂ The present album appears to have originally been owned and used by Joseph Crawhall I, and features later additions by his two sons, with the album later passing by descent to his grandson Thomas Emerson Crawhall.