19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More studio pottery platter and a bit of roughness

and a bit of roughness to one spot on his tail

Feather pages measure 11" x 8 1/2" each

as are the six sections of fencing

needlework

Beautiful aged condition

19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More studio pottery platter and a bit of roughnessI believe this is a Grand Tour sketchbook of sorts, probably 1880s or so, carried along on travels through Europe. The first few pages are very carefully rendered watercolors of floral arrangements (they look almost like prints, but close inspection shows they are indeed watercolors). Much more interesting to me though are the much more naive sketches on subsequent pages, presumably rendered on site of what look to be tombs memorials and ruins