Sketchbook ("1871"): Travel Sketches and Copies after Artwork

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white, buff, and gray wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-three pages remaining. Twenty-four drawings.Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. 18 pages are missing before the first numbered page; one page is missing between pages one and two. Contents: Figure and animal studies; views in Dresden; copies after paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, by Veronese, Tintoretto, Canaletto, and Marinus Roymerswaele, among others.

Dimensions

10 x 15.8 x 1.2 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/4 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.