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
Philip Burne-Jones, the artist's son, London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 10, 1926, no. 96 (£11); purchased at that sale by (?) Spencer; Miss Gray; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 1, 1928 (£126 10 s. for cat nos. 166-169); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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