Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
Lady Charlotte Frances Spencer, (1835-1903)
Lot 456

Lady Charlotte Frances Spencer, (1835-1903)

Inscribed 'My beautiful and valuable sketches made during several tours abroad and in Scotland, from 1858-1864'

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 1,625

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Lady Charlotte Frances Spencer, (1835-1903)
Inscribed 'My beautiful and valuable sketches made during several tours abroad and in Scotland, from 1858-1864'
inscribed as titled on the front page of the album
pencil and watercolour, loose mounted in an album, front board missing
8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 28 cm.)
together with a smaller sketch book of topographical views by the same hand, signed 'C. Spencer' (on the title page), 4 x 6 in. (10 x 15.2 cm.) (2)

Specialist note

Lady Charlotte Frances Spencer (1835-1903) married John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) in 1858 and before they set off on a nine- month honeymoon, he wrote to Charlotte 'I wonder whether we shall be satiated with our foreign expedition or get the contary desire of always travelling?'. This lot contains sketches undertaken on their honeymoon.