Manuscript. “Shadows of the Past”. Pp 33 pen and ink and pencil drawings of Victorian men and women, possibly at church. One watercolour of a church tipped in which depicts the village of Barking, Essex, in England, looking toward St Margaret's Church and the historic Curfew Tower. The work consists of a blank notebook rather roughly fixed into paper wraps, the spine with reinforcement, and titled to the front wrap. A naïve work with a lot of charm, possibly done from life- certainly well observed, and with some figures named. The portraits are not at all kind, even a little spiteful! The first page helpfully bears the date 1854 to 1855 and the work gives the strong sense of capturing the fashions of the day, with attention paid to styles of bonnets [ including one captioned “a drawn bonnet”], dresses and men’s and children’s costume.
