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[Six drawings in a single frame, including 'Fresco outside chapel of Doero near Mesocco']

Prints of six drawings for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' on one sheet, mounted and framed (25 x 32.5 cm): 'S. Ignatius Loyola, from a fresco near Ceres' (1882, p.210); 'Study by an Italian Amateur. No. 2' (p.175); 'Main doorway, S. Nicolao' (p.74); 'Fresco outside chapel at Doero near Mesocco' (p.187); 'Piazza at Lanzo' (p.171); and 'Study by an Italian Amateur. No. 1' (p.174).

'Tengia, Ticino' [Tengia No.2]

Print, on a loose sheet (11 x 17.5 cm), of a drawing for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' ('Tengia No. II', 1882, p.53), with cloud formations drawn in by hand, in pen.

'Tengia No. 2'

Two prints of 'Tengia, Ticino', for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' (1882, p.53) on one sheet, mounted and framed (28.5 x 24.5 cm). One print is labelled 'No. 14 / Tengia No. 2' in Samuel Butler's hand.

[Two drawings documenting exposure times for photographs]

Two pen and ink drawings (or prints after pen drawings), mounted together and framed (29 x 16.5 cm), showing the development stages of an image of town buildings with a church. Labelled: 'Copper bath half & half May 12 1881 weather average. 20 minutes'; and 'Bath 1/10 acid. May 2 1881 weather average. Zinc. 15 minutes'.

'Sanctuary di San Michele'

Two pen and ink drawings (or prints after pen drawings), mounted together and framed (32.5 x 23.5 cm), for 'Alps and Sanctuaries'. The first, 'Steps Leading to the Church, No. 1' (1882, p.106), is modified by hand with ink and whitener. The second, 'Main Entrance to the Sanctuary' (1882, p.104), is dated July 1880. Both are early versions of the drawings, before the addition of figures by Charles Gogin.

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