ALBUM OF DRAWINGS. Album of original drawings in ink or graphite, early 19th century; oblong volume in-8 (13.5x20.5cm), red basane spine partly detached, 51 leaves. Album by Jacques-Gabriel ROLIN (Nancy 1782-1852), surveyor and numismatist, he was forest inspector in Guise and sub-prefect; he was elected in 1825 to the Académie de Stanislas in Nancy, where he resided from 1840, and where he died; he was clearly a good draftsman, as this notebook shows. The first 18 pages present some 80 portraits, mainly in pen and ink, with autograph comments: Alexandre I, Alfieri, Andrieux, Augereau, Beaumarchais, Beurnonville, Boissy d'Anglas, Boufflers, Brune, Burke, Calvin, Canova, Carnot, Catherine II, Caulaincourt, Chateaubriand, Chaudet, Condorcet, Courier, Custine, Dante, David, Delambre, Delille, Drouot, Dubois-Crancé, Dupin aîné, Foy, Girodet, Hauy, Hoche, Lagrange, La Rochejaquelein, Lasalle, La Tour d'Auvergne, Marie-Thérèse, Mlle Mars, Moreau, Napoléon, Ney, Mme de Staël, Suchet, Talleyrand, Vincent de Paul, etc., after Boilly, David, Frémy, Gérard, Girodet, Gros, Houdon, Rouget, etc. This is followed by drawings on sheets mounted in the album, some from a smaller notebook: 5 self-portraits, King Stanislas medal, chevet of Bourges cathedral, Besançon prefecture (1812), fantastic composition of heads, antique statues, copies of paintings (including Velasquez), panorama of Guise, landscapes, etc. 4 drawings relate to trees.