Sketchbook B.

12mo: [80] ff. + [4] text ff., drawings and preparatory studies, in pencil, most monogrammed "CDA" and dated, occ. with captions in French (some ff. loose).

Three-quarter black buckram, marbled paper covers, flat spine (rubbed, label ribbed off the spine).

Composed of portraits of men and women, also Oriental, 2 Turks with a narguileh, men and women dressed in a drape, a church man, 2 designs figuring a trapezist, 13 representing children with attributes of countries (Germany, France, Belgium, USA, "Italie macaroni", "Chine Japon", "Angleterre plump pudding", "Hollande hareng frais", etc.), studies of hands, etc. It also includes 4 ff. with notes taken by Dell'Acqua i.a. taken during a "Bal masqué" in Brussels (?).
Prov. Aline Bouilliot Dell'Acqua (1857-1948), one of the two daughters of Dell'Acqua (ms. entry). - Library shelf label.