Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook masts I'd guess he was the

I'd guess he was the father of Samuel Gifford

The framed watercolor measures 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 1 3/8"

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or whittles away

visible page size is 2 5/8" x 2 1/8"

Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook masts I'd guess he was theThis "pictorial scrapbook" is a revelation to me. I have never paid much attention at all to Victorian scrapbooks, typically filled with die cuts and trade cards and illustrations of fashionable ladies cut from journals most seeming very much of the 'seen one, seen them all' variety to me. But amidst those, I am now becoming more aware, there were some extraordinary albums being created very inventive photo collages, for example, and "scrapbook