Sketchbook
1870s-1880s
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. 44 pages; the last quarter of the pages are in uncut drawing block. Pages of heavy cream wove paper, measuring 134 x 94 mm. Drawings are in graphite. Generally the drawings are on both sides of the page. Almost all are signed with the artist's initials.
Dimensions
14 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Edward Burne-Jones, by descent; to Philip Burne-Jones, his son, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 10, 1926, lot 96]; to Spencer? Miss Gray, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York and Lenox, 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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