19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More jaunty it's the most marvelously colorful

it's the most marvelously colorful and exuberant rendering of one I’ve certainly ever seen

(A physical manifestation of "hands off

I believe dates to the the 3rd quarter 19th century or so

This old hair ornament is amazing

but as it is this gorgeous 1974 book is the next best thing

19th Century Presumed Grand Tour Sketchbook with Charming Drawings of Tombs and Ruins and More jaunty it's the most marvelously colorfulI believe this is a Grand Tour sketchbook of sorts, probably 1880s or so, carried along on travels through Europe. The first few pages are very carefully rendered watercolors of floral arrangements (they look almost like prints, but close inspection shows they are indeed watercolors). Much more interesting to me though are the much more naive sketches on subsequent pages, presumably rendered on site of what look to be tombs memorials and ruins