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1613395277
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Album bound in red leather with gilt ruling and gold tooling, stamped on the front cover "E A/1660" and on the back "A C A", containing 73 numbered vellum leaves with drawings and 23 unnumbered guarded blank vellum leaves, each with additional manuscript numbers 1-99 (apart from one leaf with no manuscript number and 4 leaves missing), interleaved with unnumbered paper leaves, also one numbered vellum drawing laid down on paper, and a section 12 paper leaves at the back (one numbered in manuscript 100); the first 2 leaves with an index tipped in; with botanical illustrations of flowers (including fox-gloves and tiger lillies) and the coat-of-arms of the Anckelmann family. 1660 Watercolour and bodycolour, often heightened with white, on vellum
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