- Lot 262

[Drawing] Fanny MERSCH - Drawing album. S.l., [XIXth c.]. In-4 Italian style, 27 drawings + 8 unfinished sketches, graphite on heavy wove paper, most of them protected by a serpente. Green half-basin boards of the time, shaded paper covers. Scattered spotting. Binding faded, spine missing. Drawings representing mostly scenes of rural life, some taken from life, others more conventional and probably inspired by engravings: a farm boy feeding cattle, two hunters, a family of peasants, various animals (2 drawings with exotic animals: wild beasts, elephant), a wagon drawn, buildings (farms, mills), etc. Some rare legends in pencil. The name of the amateur artist appears on the flyleaf. A handwritten note identifies her as the daughter of Augustin Mersch, born in Saint-Vith on August 15, 1807 and died in Liège on March 5, 1889. ALBUM ENRICHED WITH: - 37 engravings depicting sheep and goats including a complete suite: Johann Heinrich Roos, after Johann Philipp Fleischbein von Kleeberg. Dem WolEdlen Gestrengen [...]. [Germany], 1671. 126 x 141 mm at the plate cut, frontispiece and 8 pl. In ff. Bibliogr. British Museum. - 2 small drawings, 1 signed F. Moyson representing a soldier - ambushed. - S. FABRI - Picturesque view of an Italian village in the 17th century. 1862. 35,5 x 28 cm, graphite, estompe, some watercolor highlights, on tinted paper.