Album amicorum : [England, France and Italy], 1833-1844.

Record ID: 
224607
Accession number: 
MA 4006
Author: 
Sawle, Rose Paynter Graves, Baroness, 1818-1914.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1977.
Description: 
1 item (80 p.), bound ; 24.5 cm
Notes: 

According to Sketches from the diaries of Rose, Lady Graves Sawle, 1833-1896, Paynter traveled to Italy, London, Bath, Paris and Versailles during this period.

Summary: 

Includes poems (including an acrostic), prose passages, and a few sketches contributed by friends, including one entry toward the end of the book by Nimrod (Charles J. Appleby).

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (26.2 cm)
Binding: 
Blue leather, with "Rose Paynter 1833" printed in gilt on upper cover.
Provenance: 
A penciled note on front free endpaper indicates that the album is "from the Sawle family, Penvice Hse, Par, Cornwall;" sale (Sotheby's, 4 Oct. 1977, lot 145); purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1977.