(SKETCHBOOK.) Album of watercolor portraits. 11 charming ink and watercolor portraits of Japanese women or young girls on (not 18th-century) watermarked laid paper. Oblong cloth sketchbook, 6x8 1/2 inches, front cover pictorially decorated and lettered in gouache, rear cover bearing the name S. Watanabe, worn and nearly separated; pigments oxidized, a few leaves with light dampstain. [Np, late 19th/early 20th century]
