Sketchbook
c. 1870-1878
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers, remains of cloth ties. 14 pages; the remaining pages are are in uncut drawing block. A number of pages were removed before the sketchbook was acquired by the Fogg. Pages of heavy cream wove paper, measuring 272 x 181 mm. Drawings are in graphite. All are signed with the artist's initials and many are inscribed by the artist's son Philip.
Dimensions
28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Edward Burne-Jones, by descent; to Philip Burne-Jones, his son, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 10, 1926, lot 97]. 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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