| Description | Commonplace album containing drawings and poetry in various hands, usually signed or initialled and dated. Several initialled "M H" and two signed James Charles. Two entries addressed "to Sarah".
Several pencil drawings appear in the volume, including:
The Bass Rock (Firth of Forth) signed W I[J] Huggins.
A Castle above a bay with sailing ships signed E Duncan.
A man carrying a bundle walking down a road with a church spire in the background signed H L Hughes.
Portrait of a woman wearing an elaborate dress & hat titled "Saranha", signed H Hughes. [*possibly* the Welsh artist & author Hugh Hughes?]
Drawing of a dog, signed H L Hughes
A pagoda between Canton and Macao [Macau] initialled SCH.
Countryside scene, possibly also China? Initialled SCH.
Drawing of a shipwreck annotated 'Lintin - China', signed S C Huggins.
A cow sitting outside a barn, initialled IEG.
Portrait of a bearded man, signed W Clarke 1839.
Drawing of the bridge of Crevola, Italy, signed F V Windsor, 1838.
Pencil drawing of a man on a riverbank, signed James.
This album may have belonged to Sarah Christiana Huggins [SCH?], daughter of the artist William John Huggins. The watercolour artist Edward Duncan was her brother-in-law. |