DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Sketch of a Capital with Bird, Palace of Charles V, Granada

19th-20th century

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Description

The drawing is affixed to the verso of the page. It appears to have been removed from a sketchbook, as the left edge is torn as if from a binding. The right edges are rounded.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

11.3 x 16 cm (4 7/16 x 6 5/16 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.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled [Two Profiles of Women]

Lyonel Feininger, undated

Graphite and blue crayon on paper

20th centuryGerman?

Drawings

A Mediterranean Bay; verso: blank page

Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1897

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled [Woman Seated at Table]; verso: Untitled [Woman's Head]

Lyonel Feininger, undated

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman?

Drawings

Partial Shore Scene; verso: Partial Landscape

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1864

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Production Cel for "Gulliver's Travels"

Fleischer Studios, 1939

Gouache on acetate film affixed to cardboard

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Buildings]

Lyonel Feininger, undated

Ink on paper

20th centuryGerman?

Drawings

Untitled (recto and verso)

Morris Louis, 1950

Black ink on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Two Sketches: Church, Gelmeroda and Village Street

Lyonel Feininger, 1919

Black pencil on gray paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

San Giorgio al Velabro, Rome

Unidentified Artist, 17th century

Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper

17th centuryDutch

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (swan, right page)

Otto Piene, 1978

Black marker on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

The Old College from the Yard

Harold Robert Shurtleff, 1934

Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

"Six million farms and their farmers. Adolf and she was born in freedom"

Ben Shahn, 1942

Graphite on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican