Lot 596: George Albert Frost, American 1843-1907- A group of twenty one drawings including portrait studies,

George Albert Frost, American 1843-1907- A group of twenty one drawings including portrait studies, village scenes and views of Chita and Baikal; pencil, seventeen inscribed, various sizes, 35.8x25.4cm (max) (21) (unframed) Note: In 1885 George Albert Frost accompanied the explorer George Kennan on an expedition to Siberia to record the lives of exiles in the Russian Empire. The sketches and drawings that Frost produced on the trip were used to illustrate Kennan's subsequent publication ''Siberia and the Exile System'' which was published in 1891.

sheets are yellowed time-faded some sheets with handling marks some with minor tears and losses at edges and corners minor brown spotting and patches of discolouration evident on some sheets otherwise general good original condition