On this album page a wreath formed of cut-outs of flowers and leaves serves as a frame for a poem composed by the nineteenth-century playwright and humorist Douglas Jerrold and addressed to Annie Paxton, sister to Blanche Paxton, the album’s owner.

Here, on one of the four engraved and hand-colored pages interspersed among the blank pages of the Floral Album, the engraver has pictured a wreath of flowers formed from pink roses, blue morning glories, a spray of forget-me-nots, pansies, and other blossoms.

This page of watercolor painting and cut paper work is found in an album compiled around 1822 and 1823 in honor of a certain Miss [Louisa?] Gilman. At the page’s center is a footed vase, classical in style, which holds an arrangement of orange blossom, morning glory, and roses, the latter both budding and in full bloom. The vase is framed by two feathers.

A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

In the immediate foreground of the picture plane is a herd of sheep. The sheep are reclining on the ground in manner that suggests that they have either been struck dead or are sleeping. Only several of the sheep are upright. To the left of the herd, guarded by a starkly pale dog standing in an aggressive pose, is a sleeping figure, presumably a shepherd.