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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy The Album Amicorum of Sir Michael Balfour

The Album Amicorum of Sir Michael Balfour

Various

Art Funded
1975
Dimensions
16 x 11 cm
Art Fund grant
£1,000 (Total: £4,200)
Vendor
Sotheby's
119 leaves with drawings and autographs.

Includes autographs by James VI, Queen Anne of Denmark, Henry Prine of Wales, and Christian IV of Denmark. Most notable for the pictorial material gathered during Balfour's Grand Tour of 1596-9.

Provenance

Michael Balfour; William Hog, 1660; William Marquess of Lothian; Private collection.

Paper in red Morocco binding

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