Sketchbook
19th century
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with green-moiré-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block, pages unbound. Ten pages of off-white laid paper, each 8.2 x 15.5 cm. One drawing, in graphite. Front pastedown has small mountain landscape drawn in graphite. Archives of American Art reel 688 numbers this book SG1.
Dimensions
8.3 x 15.7 x 0.3 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/16 x 1/8 in.)
Provenance
By descent through artist's family, 1880; Alice Carter Gifford, Cambridge, MA; bequeathed to her son Sanford Gifford, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.
Related Artworks
View MoreBlack ink on buff wove tracing paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanBlack crayon on thin ivory wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanBlack ink and gray wash over graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanOil and graphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanBlack crayon and white chalk on blue laid paper
19th centuryAmericanWatercolor on off-white wove paper, set down completely to off-white cardboard
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on gray laid paper
19th-20th centuryAmericanGraphite on ivory wove paper
19th centuryAmericanWatercolor, white gouache and gum varnish on rough off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on darkened off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmerican