Sketchbook ("Banners")
1880s?
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with tan cloth covers. 92 pages. Pages of cream modern laid paper, measuring approximately 241 x 156 mm. (bound irregularly). Watermark: MICHALLET. Drawings are variously in black and purple chalk, graphite, and dark brown ink. Generally the drawings are on both sides of the page. A few are signed with the artist's initials. Only the pages with drawings on them have been catalogued; the following pages are blank: 1, 27-32, 44-87.
Dimensions
25 x 16 cm (9 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Philip Burne-Jones, the artist's son, London; Miss Gray; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, August 1, 1928 (£126 10s. for cat. nos. 166-169); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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