Album, folio-size, hard-backed in green paper boards containing ZBA4856-ZBA4905 mounted in, mostly only on recto pages but some later ones also on the versos. The front board has separated, with initial three folios. The book has only been partly used as a 'scrapbook' containing simple outline lithographs based on pencil drawings (of which two are present, loose) and watercolour items Fanshawe did not include in his more selective albums of finished work. Since the existing Fanshawe albums presented to the Museum in 1951 only cover his Pacific and later European service, and his Far Eastern album(s) - and perhaps others - remain unlocated, the contents here help fill gaps in his career, albeit in reverse chronology. The Borneo items come last, though he was there in 1845-46: he was only on the West Indies and North Americas station as C-in-C from September 1870 to January 1874, when his son Arthur was his flag-lieutenant and his family also lived out there. It can only be assumed he made the drawings that are the basis of the West Indian and American lithographs: who turned them into prints and when is unknown. It is not impossible he did so himself later but perhaps unlikely: his son Evelyn might be another possibility, since he was also an amateur photographer. All but two of the other watercolours are clearly by Edward.

26 album folios bear lithographs and drawings stuck in, some of the latter being fold-outs, and there are eight loose items (ZBA4906-ZBA4913) of which the last two in the NMM number sequence are probably by another family member. The binding bears the London supplier's label 'S. C. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place': there are 22 blank pages and gatherings of (unused) guards are included throughout for insertion of extra items. For a summary of Fanshawe's movements in the American and West Indian period covered by the views in this item, see ZBA4856.