[A bound drawing book of lace patterns].
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Manuscript on paper. [182] leaves. Approximately one third used. Several sheets loosely inserted. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Heavily rubbed, marked, joints split. Holes to boards for the accommodation of cloth ties, now absent. Endpapers browned.
A manuscript pattern book, comprised of decorative floral motifs, from the estate of the Stricklands of Apperley Court, Gloucestershire, recently dispersed, without any indication of such.
The Strickland baronetcy was created in 1641. Henry Eustatius Strickland (1777-1865), third son of the fifth baronet, constructed Apperley Court around the turn of the nineteenth century. With him lived his two sisters, Charlotte (1759-1833) and Juliana Sabina (1765-1849). The sisters were talented artists, providing illustrations for their cousin naturalist Strickland Freeman's Specimens of British Plants (London, 1797). Either, or indeed both, may have had a hand in producing this pattern book, though another candidate may be Henry's wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartright (1743-1823), the inventor of the power loom.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 30211
The Strickland baronetcy was created in 1641. Henry Eustatius Strickland (1777-1865), third son of the fifth baronet, constructed Apperley Court around the turn of the nineteenth century. With him lived his two sisters, Charlotte (1759-1833) and Juliana Sabina (1765-1849). The sisters were talented artists, providing illustrations for their cousin naturalist Strickland Freeman's Specimens of British Plants (London, 1797). Either, or indeed both, may have had a hand in producing this pattern book, though another candidate may be Henry's wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartright (1743-1823), the inventor of the power loom.
