Sketchbook
c. 1880-1886
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers; remains of cloth ties. 12 pages; the last remaining pages are in uncut drawing block. Pages of heavy cream wove paper, measuring 263 x 150 mm. Drawings in graphite and black crayon. Most are signed with the artist's initials. Most of the pages were removed before the sketchbook came to the Fogg.
Dimensions
27 x 17 cm (10 5/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Philip Burne-Jones, the artist's son, London; Miss Gray; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 1, 1928 (£126 10s for cat. nos. 166-169); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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