Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards.
Half Morocco. Pebbled cloth on boards. . Good. Oblong, 24.5 by 31 cm. 17 leaves containing the original mixed media artwork. The augmented monogram album is different than others we have handled in that the playful artwork is almost entirely pasted or mounted onto the page, with relatively little of this artwork applied directly to the page. We do not think that is a distinction that matters greatly, though. Among the fanciful paper cuts are royal guards, one with a preposterously big bearskin hat, a clipper ship, anthropormorphic pigs (a he and a she), each holding balloons by string, a beehive, a scissor, a witch's head. One picture we think is especially fun depicts a beautiful woman -- this one printed -- resting on a stone wall, while she is blowing bubbles. Directly painted onto the pages are flowers, a Greenaway style girl and a mouse and owls, sometimes some details, or done in pencil, a woman's portrait. One additional page has no monograms or crest but paintings of a lancer and a soldier done onto the page. Condition: the binding has some looseness. General wear to the binding. Soiling scattered on the leaves.
(Inventory #: 005798)