Britain.- English School (first half of the 19th century) An album of approximately 150 drawings illustrating views from across England and Scotland, including landscapes and studies from Greater London, specifically Woodford, Hainault Forest, Windsor, and Sandrock, and also numerous views of Hastings, Brighton, including the Chain Pier, and also numerous views from Derbyshire, Bath, Snowdonia, the Highlands, specifically Dulwhinnie and Amerarder, and many others, artist's pen and ink bookplate of an armoured boot to front paste-down, with artist's name 'Mary Boott' inscribed alongside and throughout the album, black chalk, watercolour, wash, many heightened with white, tipped onto album leaves, inscribed, signed, and dated throughout, various sizes, on various wove papers, each album leaf approx. 290 x 230 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 in), some surface dirt and handling creases, in contemporary half calf, lacking spine, upper board detached, otherwise very worn and rubbed, large 4to, [circa 1820s-1855]; together with 15 further watercolours by Boott, landscapes and seascapes, many of the environs of Weymouth, the majority signed, dated and inscribed, watercolours on wove paper, some laid onto support, various sizes, largest 175 x 250 mm. (6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in), all loose unframed, [1850s]. ⁂ Wide ranging in both subject location as well as date of production, the present album stands as a cohesive example of the developing hand of an English amateur artist working in the first half of the 19th century.
