Watercolour Album

This album was an absolute dream to work on.  I discovered it at a friend's house.  It contains some watercolours painted by his great-grandmother, who obviously was an amazing artist.  But the album had been badly stored, and was in a parlous state.  I was able to save all the wonderful images by lifting them onto clean sheets, and keeping her hand-written annotations by cutting them out of the original sheets and pasting them onto the clean ones.  This was one of the most pleasurable projects I have ever done, and it has been a real honour to salvage the work of such a talented artist!

The album peeping out of its slipcase. The image on the front cover is a copy of one of the originals inside

The album with its slipcase standing behind it.

The title of the album written by the artist, transposed by me.

Another view of the title page.

The detail of the headband, which also shows the very special montage of this album, which has to do with making sure that you can open the pages fully so that you can view the images flat. Bit technical and difficult to explain, but trust me, it makes a huge difference.

One of the gorgeous images.

More exquisite beauty.

And the beautiful images just go on and on...

and on....

and on...

and on...

and on. And believe me this is a small selection of them. I am sure you will agree they were well worth saving. I would kill to own this!

Another view of the album and sleeve.

Another view of the album and sleeve.

Photographs by Nikolaus van der Pas.

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