[HORTENSE, Queen] - Artistic Album of Queen Hortense - A Bio - Lot 159

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[HORTENSE, Queen] - Artistic Album of Queen Hortense - A Bio - Lot 159
[HORTENSE, Queen] - Artistic Album of Queen Hortense - A Biographical Sketch of Queen Hortense. A Visit to Augsburg - Letters, Drawings, and Music. Paris, Heugel, (1853). Oblong quarto, dedication to Napoleon III in gold lettering, title page in color and gilt, lithographed portrait of the queen by Léon Noël (facsimile), 23 pp., 24 ff. of music, 7 ornate title pages in color, 6 monochrome lithographs based on Queen Hortense’s drawings, some traces of oxidation on the endpapers, publisher’s cardboard cover slightly worn, bearing Queen Hortense’s coat of arms with a bee at the corners, binding partially split and rubbed. Album published in homage to Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), Queen of Holland, Duchess of Saint-Leu, daughter of Joséphine Taschert de la Pagerie, and mother of Napoleon III. The text consists of: A Visit to Augsburg by the Count de La Garde (in 1819) — A Biographical Sketch of Queen Hortense by Hippolyte Prévost — Eight letters from Queen Hortense, including one facsimile. (Following this:) Sheet music for twelve romances in a gilded frame, illustrated with six lithographs by F. Sorrieu based on the queen’s drawings.
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