James McDonald Boggis Sold at Auction Prices

* Boggis (James Macdonald, 1806-1847). Album of rural sketches and drawings

* Boggis (James, 1806-1847). An album of rural sketches and drawings, thought to be of the countryside around Essex, containing a total of 49 pencil and watercolour wash drawings, on rectos of each sheet only, depicting a variety of country scenes with figures and animals, including scything, pumping and drawing water, feeding workers in the fields, transporting cattle across water in a boat, ploughing (and mending a plough), bee keeping, milking, fishing, cooking on a tripod, hanging out the laundry, a horseback peddlar, etc., interleaved with tissue guards (generally creased and spotted, 1 or 2 missing), sheet size 18 x 27.5cm (7 x 10.75ins), hinges repaired with fabric tape, inscribed on the front free endpaper 'Lucy Boggis from Arthur W. Weston May 15th 1879', original pink cloth, partially faded, spine frayed at ends, gilt lettered 'Drawings' on upper cover, oblong 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from P.J.S. Boggis relating to provenance dated 26th March 1979 Qty: (1)