Lot 214: ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GREVILLE, 2ND EARL OF WARWICK | A large album of landscape drawings, circa 1765

Including studies of castles, trees, lakes, rivers, mountainous valleys and other subjects

The Album: 495 by 645 mm

Twenty-seven sheets, one double sided, twelve just pencil, the remainder a combination of blue, grey and brown ink heightened with washes over pencil, on thick, watermarked laid paper, bound in original brown leather boards, the cover decorated with a label, inscribed in brown ink: <em>Old Drawings</em>

The drawings that are contained in this present album are very well preserved. The paper is robust and the pigments, having not been exposed to light, are in excellent condition. The leather boards at worn and have some losses.
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George, 2^nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816);
by family descent to the present owner