[Untitled portfolio of drawings]

Description

Portfolio, with oval vignettes recto and verso. Recto: Quincy, decorative writing on "sky-like" background. Verso: design of fall leaves, against sky. Both are colored. Contents include several sketches, watercolors, etc. Noteworthy are: two pencil drawings by, or after, John L(udlow) Morton, one titled Castle Williams, Governors Island, with initials JLM, another titled "On the fish-kill" with the same initials. Probably 1840s. Other contents of this portfolio include: pencil sketch of a young man wearing plumed hat, pasted to paper with raised ornamental border, floral pattern. Copy of sketch signed E. S. Quincy, of Quincy house, titled "Seat of Josiah Quincy, Esq." Three watercolor (?) full length depictions of women in dress native to Spain, Italy and Austria? Switzerland?, unsigned, watermarked Canson. Four pencil sketches, various stages of completion. Floral/trees, one with sketch of building in Harvard Yard (? very incomplete). One wash drawing Etruscan vase. One watercolor profile of dog, with penciled inscription affixed to ornamental card. One printed page, colored, inscribed "Album." One copy (?) of Niagara Falls from above, from etching by Basil Mall (Hall?) with "camera lucida" (long inscription on reverse of this).