Romantic album with 50 diverse drawings and prints.

Oblong folio: various techniques, laid and wove paper, various conditions.

Mounted. 19th-c. purple straight-grained morocco signed Schaefer, covers with gilt-orn. frame and fillets, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, gilt fillets on sides, gilt-orn. turn-ins, brown silk endpapers, a.e.g. (rubbed).

Mixed collection incl. views (Gibraltar, etc.), buildings (Het Steen, Our Lady's Cathedral, St Charles Borromeo Church in Antwerp), portraits of the European nobility and figure studies. Incl. prints by Philips Galle, Aegidius Sadeler, Gerard Edelinck, Eugène Smits, etc. and a drawing by Constantin Meunier, a.o.