Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(DRAWINGS -- ENGLISH COSTUME.) Satirical English scrap album. Over 100 mounted pen and ink caricature sketches, many captioned and signed "F.G. Lynn" or "F.G.L." Small folio, 12x10 inches, contemporary green cloth stamped in black, worn and shaken. [England, circa 1860-1875]
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The majority of the album's fine sketches depict British attire from the medieval period intermingled with manuscript text from Punch's Book of Ancient British Costumes. A group of military-related drawings fill out the rear of the volume.