£200 - £300
Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen (1830-1923) of Baddesley Clinton - Abum, of pencil drawings and watercolours by the artist and her circle, including Penelope Oliver Cave (1824-1902), Augusta Foster, Jane Duke and other hands, the subjects taken from literature, landscape, country houses, European views and more distant views and flowers many leaves blank, the printed title inscribed Penelope Cave Weymouth January 1843, original maroon Morocco gilt (27 x 21.5cm), Upper board detached, a.e.g
Provenance: Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen was a prolific amateur painter, much of who's extent work remains as Baddesley Clinton, she married Marnion Edward Ferrers (1813-1834), of Baddesley Clinton where they resided with her aunt Lady Chatterton and her husband, E H Dering. Nicknamed 'The Quartet' the two examples were particularly interested in art, history and matters of religion. On the death of their spouses Rebecca and Dering were married (source which includes a self portrait of R D Orpen in her Painting Room https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?SearchTerms=343187)
In superb preservation and apparently complete, all watercolours fresh and unfaded. The binding good and original, say for the detached cover
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