TWO artistic memory album pages by this interesting artist.
Each page measures about 8 x 10” and both are DISBOUND from the original album (not included in this lot) along their left edge.

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The TWO album pages are as follows:

----the first album page is an artwork entitled “THE YOUNG COTTAGERS” in ornate calligraphic lettering. A very young girl is shown holding a much younger child in her arms (her sibling?).

The figures are intricately drawn on what appears to be something like rice-paper. The figures are then carefully cut-out and pasted on the album page. Both figures appear to be drawn & painted – but could possibly be hand-painted highlights on some sort of printed base-image (view the detailed scans below).

This picture of young children measures about 1.5 x 3” and is pasted about in the center of the page. The figures appear to be in good condition & the album page is of quite good rag content although it is a bit ragged along the left edge where detached from the album.

Elaborate vegetation and topography are drawn around the figure of the children apparently with pencil. In the distance behind the children is a snug-looking cottage.

In the lower-right corner of the album page is the attractively calligraphic signature of the artist “C DYCE” in dark-ink (see detailed scans below).

The album page on which this artwork is drawn has no watermark.

The following scan shows front and reverse of this album page artwork and some enlarged detail:

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--The second album page in this lot is an attractively hand written CALLIGRAPHIC POEM entitled: ”A FEW WORDS FROM THE HARD SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE”

This page measures about 8 x 10” and is of quite good rag content although it is a bit ragged along the left edge where detached from an album.

Additionally, it is quite interesting that this old album page has a large WATERMARK in the paper which reads: J. WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1828.

The artist of this calligraphic poem has not signed the page (but C. Dyce possibly also drew it).

A transcription of this calligraphic poem is as follows:

A FEW WORDS
FROM THE HARD SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE

Oft on the troubled ocean’s face
Loud stormy winds arise
The murmurings surges swell a pace,
And clouds obscure the skies.

But when the tempest’s rage is o’er
Soft breezes smooth the main;
The billows cease to lash the shore,
And all is calm again.

Not so in fond and amorous souls
If tyrant love once reigns.
Their one eternal tempest rolls
And yields unceasing pains.

The following scan shows front and reverse of this calligraphic album page and some enlarged detail:

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The artist C Dyce is most probably CHARLES ANDREW DYCE (1816-1853) who was born in Scotland to parents William Dyce and Margaret Chalmer. Charles was the younger brother of renowned Scottish artist William Dyce (1806-1864).

Charles left Scotland and traveled to India and then to Singapore in 1842 as a merchant. In 1847, he became the high sheriff for the Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang.

These two artworks were apparently drawn by Charles earlier into some unknown acquaintances Scottish memory album.

During his later travels, Charles rather famously produced many similarly drawn sepia and watercolor paintings of scenes and landscapes in the Southeast Asian region.

"These works of art now form the Charles Dyce Collection found in the South & Southeast Asian Gallery of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum."

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