A faint drawing in ink for an aigrette from an album of jewellery designs. Another sheet of vellum has been pasted onto the page depicting a string of forty-seven graduated pearls. From a gold swivel at the bottommost pearl, hangs a pendant with a table-cut rectangular sapphire and a large oval ruby in an octagonal gold setting, enamelled in red, blue and green with a large drop-pearl. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.