Lot 1507
JEMIMA BLACKBURN (1823-1909)
AN ALBUM OF CHARMING SKETCHES
Comprising approximately 83 items (some scraps), each gummed down, including whimsical figure subjects, animal subjects, figure groups and scenes of the Scottish Victorian middle classes at leisure, sport and recreation etc, the majority c.1838-c.1860 (the latest 1887), principally watercolours, many captioned, with some etchings and other prints by other hands also included, contemporary half morocco, 4to; with the biography `Jemima` by Rob Fairley, Edinburgh 1988 (2)
* Titles of the illustrated items include `Christmas presents for the children` (1854), `Out with the Riding Master on Portobello Sands`, `Jemima tried to get hair from the camel for her paint brushes at the zoo` (1840), (Peter, Helen Hugh and Colin on stilts) (1840), and (Robert, Helen, Jemima, Hugh and Andrew at a gannet rookery)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
