[Micro-mini within] Early 19th century miniature album with hand drawn symbolist micrographia Lord's Prayer and also 23 original drawings and enclosures

Item Details

ca 1860, Leather

Very Good

 4-1/2" x 3-1/2" Mid 19th c album in black leather, gilt decorative frame to covers, accents to spine, aeg.  142p., of which 23 leaves have been decorated with pencil sketches, original watercolors, pasted engravings, pen and ink originals, and fifteen colored miniature stamps of London landmarks.  Of note is a micrographic circular rendition of the Lord's Prayer measuring only 3/4", within a border of handdrawn religious and Masonic symbols, the whole having a diameter of 1 -3/16" 

Entries include:  19 stamps of London landmarks/Sepia toned Mother and Child/Ships in a Bay in color/Ruins and Yacht b/w/Handwritten poems/Floral handpainted vignette/Castle in Pen and Ink/Engraving of a young girl b/w/Cottage scene - pencil sketch/Boat with figures in watercolor/Sentry on tower colored pen and ink/Stone memorial scrap b/w/Calais coast engraving b/w/Oval barn with fowl, pencil sketch/Architectural scene with lace border/Relief carving on wood: Dutch scene/Pastural scene with women, watercolor/Waterfall sketch/Woman dancing under grapevines, scrap/Tower in alpine scene, watercolor/Landscape pencil sketch. Very good. Leather bound.  (2801) $950.00