Description | Sketchbook bound in black leather embossed with a scroll border and the name 'MISS SAMBOURNE./ 1824' picked out in gold. Within the sketch book are various handwritten letters, stories and poems written by friends and relatives, names include Barbara Hofland (1770-1844), W. Poole, G.C.Holland and Mary Brammall. The sketchbook also includes landscapes, botanical drawings, rural vignettes, figures and silhouettes by friends and family in the Sheffield and Chesterfield area. |