An Intriguing 19thC Tooled & Gilt Morocco Leather Album of Grand Tour Interest c.1870-90 sub-Antiques The fact that the egg

The fact that the egg and dart moulding is to all sides of the top and that the rear legs have the fluted pilaster detail would suggest that the item was intended to be placed away from the wall and thus visible on the reverse but this aspect lacks a frieze and scroll angle brackets

We have tightened the joints to the frame and have given her a light wax to bring out the wonderful colour and patination in in the surface

three quarter bust

have for well over a century and a half been considered to be among the finest pictorial representations of their kind

she is largely in tact with one obvious piece of loss to the lower left side with the acanthus scrolls having loss to the ends

An Intriguing 19thC Tooled & Gilt Morocco Leather Album of Grand Tour Interest c.1870-90 sub-Antiques The fact that the eggOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 90 Size: Oblong 4to The tooled and gilt morocco leather oblong album containing 73 pasted pictures swerving from subjects of ancient and Renaissance sculpture to paintings and views of architectural treasures and religious depictions, including Discobolo, Napoli Museo Nationale, Venere de' Medici, Galleria Uffizi, Firenze and the Temple of Hephaestus amongst others, the whole