= A very meticolous drawing.
Anonymous (19th cent.). (Poultry and other birds on a farmyard). Drawing after Francis BARLOW, pen and ink, 21x29,3 cm.
- Lower corners sl. dam.
AND 1 other brush and ink drawing, late 18th/ early 19th drawing: study of various birds on branches.
= Most likely by the same draughtsman.
AND 5 similar anonymous 19th cent. drawings, incl. (pastoral) landscapes and town views (1x affected by silverfish).
Sitter identified on verso. Van Hoytema (1807-1889) was a mayor of Culemborg.
AND 1 other miniature portrait, gouache on bone, ±1820, mounted on a miniature portrait (black chalk?).
= Perhaps late 18th century.
- Laid down on modern canvas.
- Dam. spots along edges from a former frame.
- Contents fine. Sm. dam. spot in lower margin of frontcover; covers and spine trifle waterstained.
= Probably all portraits copied from contemp. sources. Some names: "Victoria Kaiserin u. Konigin"; "Ernst von Brücke. Wiener Anatomist"; "Guillaume 1e Statue[?] a Berlin"; "Walt Whitman American Poet"; "Adolf Bayerdorfer Schachspieler"; "Mark Lemon - the first editor of "Punch""; "Henry Litolff Componist"; "Prof. John Ruskin Socialist-Aestheticus"; "Charles Stewart Parnell", "Emiel Sauer Klaviervirtuoos" (dated "Jan.1892"), "Pietro Mascagni Componist (Cavalleria Rusticana)"; "Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)"; "Moritz Rosenthal Pianist"; "Max Nordau Artzt u. Philisoph"; "Hippolite Taine" and "Johannes Brahms Componist".
- Restored spot[?] in left margin.
= I.a. various irises (i.a. Spanish iris), nasturtium and orchids.
= A dedication (unread), dated 1906 on verso frame, and an address of McConnell, 17 Westwell Road, Streatham Common (London).
- Chafed spot to surface near centre.
AND 1 other similar by the same (closed tears in centre).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, both with his collector's stamp on verso.
- "Wilhelmina" in a later hand in ballpoint in upper margin; a few small waterstains.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's stamp on verso; sold at auction by Van Stockum, The Hague, December 1982 (lot 1057).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
= SEE ILUSTRATION PLATE CI.