Seven illuminated borders with strewn flowers, leaves, fruits, birds, insects, and hybrids and nineteen miniatures of saints and other figures, on parchment, cut out from a book of hours and pasted onto folded paper sheets in the mid-nineteenth century, creating a scrapbook in the English Gothic Revival tradition
Description:
Scrapbook has been attributed to Albert Henry Warren (1830-1911), painter and illustrator. and One leaf with upper corner cut away.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Books of hours, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish