Charles BLANCHOT - Colonel's Album
Member of the French Expedition to Mexico on board the Frigate "Castiglione" at the request of Napoleon III.
Illustrated with drawings, some watercolors and gouaches.
Located, dated, signed between 1863 and 1867.
Embellished with regional drawings: Loches, Poitiers, Auvours; dated, situated, signed.
Watercolors of flowers encountered during this return trip to the Azores, while the crew is quarantined on the Faial Islands: Magnolia, Azores Flowers. Signed and dated 1867.
The whole protected by an Italian binding.
26,5 x 34 cm.
Wear.
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