Botanical drawings: PD.106-1973

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Botanical drawings

Maker(s)

Entities

Album

Description

Album containing 86 watercolours tipped into the pages of an album bound in blue morocco tooled in gilt and bearing an achievement of arms back and front. Stamped in gilt on red leather insets on the spine.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973) by Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton

School or Style

British

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: motto

Text: J' AI BONNE CAUSE
Location: With achievement of arms
Method of creation: Embossed gold

Text: BOTANICAL / DRAWINGS / M. FORBES / 1775 / 1777
Location: Spine
Method of creation: Embossed gold on red leather insets

Text: Mary Capell daughter of 3rd Earl of Essex / Married 1758 Admiral Hon John Forbes, Son of 3rd Earl of Granard.
Location: Cover
Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: attached with stamp paper - the description does not appear to refer to the present album

Text: 448 CAPELL (The Ladies DIANA AND ANNE) AND FRANCES HOWARD, 108 / ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF FLOWERS & 5 OF BIRDS, EXECUTED WITH / GREAT BEAUTY AND FINISH, some signed or initialled and one dated 1763; also an ORIGINAL / WATER-COLOUR DRAWING OF PHLOX, ETC., BY G.D. EHRET, signed and dated 1766, / all on vellum, mounted in 4 vol., contemporary blue morocco gilt, rough calf sides, with / the cypher of the Earl of Essex (Capell) surmounted by a coronet in each corner, g.e. / [approximate size of drawings 9 in by 7 in] (4)
Location: Below the above
Method of creation: Cutting from a printed catalogue