Album. Lot n° 991

Elisabeth ou souvenir. Album with 42 mounted drawings in various techniques (pencil, ink, watercolor, sepia) France, 1841. 27 x 21 cm. Leather album of the period with rich gilt spine, cover with gilt and blind-stamped border and fillets (front cover loose, capitals with losses, rubbed, bumped and scuffed). The album contains beautiful drawings of landscapes, animals, ships etc. as well as three magnificent ink drawings of Goethe's Faust. - Some waviness to the mounted corners, some light browning and spotting. - Album with 42 drawings in various techniques. Contemporary leather (front cover loose, crowns damaged, rubbed and bumped). Partly slightly browned and stained. R