DrawingsAmerican19th century

New Hampshire Sketchbook

1859

Artists

Benjamin ChampneyArtist

Description

Sketchbook with brown fabric-covered cardboard covers and brown leather spine. Slit with remnants of black fabric on back cover from cloth tie. Pages of off-white wove paper, with drawings in graphite.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown fabric-covered cardboard covers and brown leather spine; fifty pages of off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

10.1 x 16.1 x 3 cm (4 x 6 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Daniel E. Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, MA, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960. Transaction made through William Bond of Houghton Library.

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