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Pencil drawing of bird perched on branch, perhaps about to take wing. Drawing 2 3/4" x 1 3/4" on card 4 1/2" x 3" embossed with grape vines along frame and lyres at corners. On verso: "S C. to EHP. 1824" with tissue guard affixed to top. S C. may have been Sarah Coleridge (1802-1852), daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A pencil drawing depicting a scene from "The Spectre Bridegroom", a short story by Washington Irving, first published as part of "Sketchbook" in 1819 and in London the next year. The scene portrays the young woman and her aunt with the spectre bridegroom outside their window. 2 3/8" x 3 3/4" drawing on card with decorative floral embossed frame 3" x 4 1/2". On verso: pen inscription "Spectre Bridegroom AW to EHP 1824" with tissue guard affixed above.

Watercolor painting of Recurved-bill Humming bird (Trochilus recurvirostris)perched on a branch (3" x 3") on a page removed from the album. No date, unsigned. Appears to be copied from "Zoological Illustrations..." Volume II by William Swainson, 1821-22. See QL 46.S96 v.2 Plate 105.

Watercolor painting of Red-Shouldered Parakeet (Psittacus discolor) 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" on a leaf removed from the album. no date, unsigned. Appears to be copied from "Zoological Illustrations..." Volume II by William Swainson, 1821-22. See QL 46.S96 v.2 Plate 62.

Pencil and black watercolor illustration of plumed bird on ground, probably Hoopoe Bird (Upupa epops) 4 1/2" x 3 3/4" signed P.R. 1827. On page removed from album.

Lithograph signed in print below the illustration"Printed by Rowney & Foster". 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" depicting lake surrounded by mountains, with boats and building on shore. Rowney & Foster company was active under that name from 1815 to 1831.

Presumably removed from the album

Handcolored lithograph (1955)taken from "Journal des Dames et des Modes" 1821. Illustration 3 5/8" x 6" on page 4 3/4" x 7". Inscription of costume in French.

Presumably removed from album

Watercolor painting of woman and child next to a tree. The child appears to be trying to put a fallen branch back on the tree. 4 1/4" x 6", no date, signed at the bottom by ".....d Purcell" Likely Edward Purcell, of London and Dublin, active 1810-1830.

Removed from album

Two etchings of Italian scenes. Both signed by B.W.[?] Dibblee to lower right of etchings. One signed "Piazza SS Annunziata" [Florence] at lower left corner of paper. Etching 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" on paper 4 3/4" x 6 1/2". The second is untitled, but appears to be a town gate with buildings surrounding. Etching 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" on paper 4 1/2" x 5 1/2".

Engraving of a portrait of Rev. Edward Irving, M.A." with an engraving of his signature beneath. "Taken from an Original Drawing by Mr. N. Whittock" "Engraved by J. Rodgers". The engraving is 4" x 5 1/4" on a sheet 4 1/2" x 7 1/2" and likely removed from a book entitled, "Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Edward Irving, M.A..." by William Jones, London, 1835.