19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More folk art boat painting once and a half

once and a half

6 7/8" x 5" and in very good condition

Signed lower left

her cousin once removed

19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More folk art boat painting once and a halfI believe this is a Grand Tour sketchbook of sorts, probably 1880s or so, carried along on travels through Europe. The first few pages are very carefully rendered watercolors of floral arrangements (they look almost like prints, but close inspection shows they are indeed watercolors). Much more interesting to me though are the much more naive sketches on subsequent pages, presumably rendered on site of what look to be tombs memorials and ruins