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Pencil drawing of ancient ruin, likely a castle or stone home, on embossed card framed by grape vines with lyres at the corners. Card 4 1/2" x 3", drawing 3 1/2" x 2". No signature, no date. Tissue paper guard mounted to top of verso.

Pencil drawing of a castle on a hill, on embossed card with frame of grape vines, and lyres at the corners. Card 4 1/2" x 3", drawing 3 1/2" x 2". On verso: Signed "DC. to EHP. 1824" [D.C. may be Derwent Coleridge who was born at Greta Hall]. With tissue guard affixed to top.

Pencil and gray watercolor view of Inverness Garrison, drawn on card 4 1/2" x 3"; sketch is 3 3/8" x 1 7/8". Card is framed by an embosssed border of roses and thistles. On verso: "Inverness Fort. MHW. to EHP. 1824." with tissue paper guard mounted at top.

Inverness Garrison, on the East bank of Loch Lomand, was constructed in 1718.

See: https://www.garrisonofinversnaid.co.uk/history

Graphite print of a leaf (unclear whether drawn from print or a print itself) 1 3/4" x 2 1/4". On card 3" x 4 1/2", embossed with roses and thistles in frame, and an embossed imperial crown above the print. On obverse: Inscribed "AH. to EHP. 1824" with tissue gruard affixed at top.

A two-sided manuscript written in longhand, probably by Parkes, removed from the album. A description of the structure and use of the "Skielobere", a type of very narrow ski/skate, taken from "A Winter In Lapland And Sweden..." by Arthur de Capell Brooke, London, 1824.

"...A Laplander descending in his snow skates, when in pursuit of wild reindeer." A watercolor painting [likely by Parkes] in black and brown, after a duotone illustration of the same title in "A Winter in Lapland and Sweden..." by Arthur De Capell Brooke, London, 1824 facing p.212. Size 8 3/4" x 6 3/4" on a page removed from the album.

Watercolor illustration of a butterfly, cut out and mounted on a card with embossed border. Painting 2 3/4" x 1 3/8"; card 4 1/2" x 3". Border: floral with monkeys (?); corners with serpents. On reverse: inscribed EH. to EHP. no date. Tissue guard affixed to top.

Three miniature watercolor illustrations of butterflies, each cut out and mounted on a single card with embossed border. Card is 4 1/2" x 3". On reverse: inscribed, "EH. to EHP." no date. Tissueguard mounted to top of card.

Pencil drawing of Inveraray Castle and surrounding landscape on card with embossed border. Drawing 3 1/2" x 2"; card 4 1/2" x 3" with grapevines througout and lyres at the corners. On reverse: Inscribed "Inverary [sic] Castle, SC to EHP 1825" with tissueguard affixed at top.

Watercolor illustration of a sprig of two red flowers on card surrounded by embossed border with grape vines and lyres at corners. Illustration 2 1/4" x 1 1/2"; card 4 1/2" x 3". On verso: 4 lines of a poem handwritten, inscribed "FC. to EH Parkes, April, 1824." The verse is the second stanza of the poem "Un Rien" by Mme de Stael. Tissue guard affixed to top.