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A large nineteenth century album, seemingly compiled by a relative of Dawson Massy, including 3 oil and gouache views (2 of anglers in the landscape), a hand-painted fan, 3 silhouettes heightened in gold, 15 watercolour costume types (continental), approximately 22 watercolour views or natural history subjects, 12 pencil sketches, approximately 20 full-page lithographed plates (some colour including costume figures, 2 of woman with moustaches, 2 after Carl Vernet), manuscript or printed ephemera including 3 pages of "charade game" with coloured overslips, a "Fifty Pound Bank of Elegance... 1823" note, Dawson Massy's passport for 1817, other cuttings, printed illustrations and ink notes, contemporary half morocco gilt, folio (415 x 255mm.), [c.1815-1840]
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Footnotes
- An attractive album compiled by a relative of Dawson Massy. Includes his passport (allowing him travel to Calais in 1817), a confirmation of his position as stipendary assistant curate of the Parish of Woodchester in Gloucestershire and an oval silhouette portrait most probably of him. He appears to have been a relative of the Baron Massy of Duntrileague, who owned "The Hermitage" in Co. Limerick, which is depicted in a gouache view of anglers on the Falls of Doonass on the River Shannon (see illustration).
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