160 Sketches in Algeria by BLSB 1856 to 1876. Including watercolours, watercolour washes, monochrome watercolours, pencil sketches, and ink sketches, all pasted into the volume. Many are untitled landscape sketches; some include remarks and instructions relating to colour, additions, omissions etc. 104 pages, volume paginated. p.1 has a bookplate pasted in depicting the Brabazon family coat of arms with the motto 'Vota Vita Mea'. Some of the sketches and paintings have specific titles and / or dates, as follows:
p. 1 'Medea' - watercolour;
p. 3 'Bar coming home with ? Basseaux to paint. ALS sculpt. BLS fecit.', ink sketch;
p. 3 'Moor on the roof as a model', ink sketch;
p. 4 'Palm and cactus gate leading into [?] Clarizel's garden 1856', pencil sketch;
p. 8 Street Algiers, 1857;
p. 13 'Femme Sauvage' [the gorge of the];
p.15 'On the road to the Bouzereah', pencil;
p. 16 'On the road Mustapha Superieur', pencil;
p. 18 'Hydra Palace from Elbian';
p. 19 3 sketches, one entitled 'nr Elbian';
p. 20 'olive trees near our house';
p. 21 'General Clarizel's House';
p.32 2 sketches, one entitled 'Port of Algiers from the hill';
p. 33 'Our Terrace', watercolour;
p. 35 'Rocks W of our house';
p. 36 'Blidah';
p. 37 'Colonel Manton's house';
p. 40 'our bay', watercolour;
p. 42 6 sketches including 'St Gregoire, Oran';
p. 46 'early morning all asleep in the tents', pencil;
p. 55 'Cedar Forest in Snow', watercolour;
p. 60 'Stone Pine', watercolour;
p. 63 'Kabyle Village', watercolour, Apr. 60;
p. 64 'Kabyle village looking towards the 2 trees where we sketched the [?] Janjura', watercolour;
p. 66 'Road to Fort National Kabylia', watercolour;
p. 67 watercolour in greys and dark greens, initialled BLSB, possibly another version of 'our bay' as on p. 40;
p. 69 'Fort des Anglais', watercolour;
p. 70 3 pencil landscapes and 1 ink sketch of 2 women on horses, caption at bottom reads 'Journey with Nanny, Journey to Arba';
p. 71 '2 ilex trees and cemetery 9 Apr 1864', pencil;
p. 73 'From Fort Napoleon', monochrome watercolour;
p. 76 'Col benni aicha [?]' - 'Here we had breakfast going to [?] Isser', pencil / watercolour wash;
p. 86 'Blidah', watercolour;
p. 88 'Femme Sauvage', watercolour landscape;
p. 89 watercolour seascape and rocks, figure of a fisherman standing on the rocks, initialled BLSB 1876;
p. 91 ink sketch of house and female figure - '1859 Campagne Pougnet we changed the name to Campagne du Pavillon';
p. 92 'Wall of our terrace below our house 1859', monochrome watercolour; and 'house from SW after my studio was built', pencil;
p. 94 'Campagne du Pavillon', pencil;
p. 95 'ALS's drawing room 1876', watercolour;
p. 97 'Femme Sauvage', watercolour - same site as p. 88, different angle?;
p. 100 'Sidi Yahya, Sidi Mouhamed ben Medjedouba; marabout and olives at [?] Beninandries', watercolour wash, initialled LS;
p. 104 'Sketch for Kabyle Parliament', large watercolour in browns, folded.
Loose at back: sheet with newspaper obituaries for BLSB pasted on; also photograph of BLSB in later years, clipped from a newspaper; also handwritten quote from a letter from Mary Howitt to BLSB and a quote from George Eliot about BLSB's painting.