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ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s] image 1
ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s] image 2
ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s] image 3
ALBUMS Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s] image 4
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Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£700 - £900

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Two good nineteenth century albums, relating to the family and friends of botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, with botanical, topographical and imaginative views, approximately 80 pages of manuscript verse, 33 watercolours (of which 17 botanical subjects, one signed by Berkeley), 13 ink and wash scenes, and 26 large pencil drawings, several signed by R.H. Essex, others by members of the Munn family, most pasted in, uniform red morocco gilt, t.e.g., 4to (240 x 190mm.), [c.1825-1836, and 1850s]

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Two albums, compiled by Margaret Campbell, each volume opening with a fine decorative watercolour with her name, one of which depicts a Greek temple by R.H. Hamilton (1802-1855, a regular exhibitor at the Society of Painters in Watercolour). Campbell was evidently close to Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889), so-called "Father of British mycology", who was born in Northamptonshire, and a relation by marriage to the watercolourist Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), who has contributed several fine wash drawings. Berkeley provides one good botanical watercolour of a lily (May 1830), and there are two good views of Margate New Church (by R.H. Essex, 1830) where he was appointed curate in 1830, and a view of King's Cliffe in Northampton where he moved afterwards. Other Berkeley family contributions are made by Emeric (a view of tombs in India), and "Miss Berkeley" (an illustrated account of " A domestic scene during the Great Rebellion of cabs"), and botanical studies signed "S.I.B.". Other images include three signed by P.S. Munn (a view of Valle Crucis in North Wales; woodland view; "Goldsmith's Traveller"), views of Catalan Bay in Gibraltar, Steinberg on the Rhine, Fairlop Oak in Essex, Lake Como, Dieppe, Ludlow, "Arab tombs", Marston Court, ?Kent (by R.H. Essex, 1827), and a charming series of portraits of children drawing, one captioned "Paul drawing in a cupboard".

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