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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian and International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Apr 2013 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  3
• Lot Description:
  Ellis Rowan
  1848 – 1922
  Decorated Photograph Album, c1882
  containing 40 watercolour illustrations; the text block comprising 20 double-sided pages, each, watercolour on card with opening for photograph, with wood front and back covers, metal cornerplates, bosses and clasp, leather spine cover with raised bands,
  39.5 x 31.5 x 11.5 cm (book);42.5 x 35.0 x 13.0 cm (case)
  signed, dated and inscribed onfront free endpaper: To / Dearest Ada with / bestlove from / Fred and Ellis Rowan / Feby 23rd 1883; monogram on front cover and case lid: AMS
• Provenance:
  Gift from the artist to her sister Ada Mary Scott, 1883; Thence by descent; The Estate of The Lady Casey, Melbourne
• Notes:
  This album was a wedding gift from Ellis Rowan to her sister Ada Mary Ryan, who married Admiral Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott, son of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, on 23 February 1883.1 Ellis Rowan’s and Ada Mary Scott’s brother was Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan, father of Ethel Marian Sumner (Maie) Ryan, later The Lady Casey. 1. Cracroft’s Peerage, The Complete Guide to the British Peerage and Baronetage, <http://www. cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/buccleuch1663.htm?zoom_highlight=%225th+Duke+ of+Buccleuch%22>, viewed 25 March 2013
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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