Description | Scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings (mostly pasted in, a few loose), printed engravings, cartoons and other illustrations (black and white, some hand-coloured). Topics relate to animals and nature, poetry, travel, politics, current afairs, and other miscellaneous themes. Also some verse in manuscript (copies, some original?). Seems to have been compiled predominantly 1820s-1830s. |
CustodialHistory | With the bookplate of the artist Anne Cliff Renier (?1911-1988) and her husband Fernand. |