[Album amicorum. Leiden] Album amicorum of Christine Henrietta Pflug (c. 1800-1834)

Manuscript on paper with 31 contributions in Dutch, French and German, partly dated (1811-1842), incl. a fine gouache of a family with dog by J.W. Verwer (1812?), embroidered flowers of coloured silk by L. Laesser née Stirm (1811), 4 gouaches of flowers and bouquets by J. Uijttenboogaard, C.J.J.D. Mayer, G.G. van den Broek (1820) and S. Westenberg-Weidenbach, 2 silhouettes of a man and a woman, and a poem by Elisabeth Charlotte Pflug, on a cut-out circle surrounded by a ring wrapped with a pink silk ribbon (1821), the contributions on loose leaves together with several unused leaves, between 2 marbled endpapers and profusely gilt morocco wrapper, with gilt-lettered "Souvenir de l'amitié" on front board and "C.H. Pflug" on back board, 9.5 x 15 x 2 cm.

Fine Leiden album amicorum from the early 19th century, with 28 signed and partly illustrated and 2 unsigned contributions (the silhouettes), mostly written in Leiden, but also in Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Amsterdam and Kampen. Christina Henrietta Pflug was the daughter of the Leiden physician Andreas G.F. Pflug and Judith Rhenius.