Sketchbook: Architectural Sketches

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with brown-, blue-, and red-marbled-paper-covered cardboard covers and blue-leather-covered spine. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with six pages remaining. Four drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners. At least two pages have been removed: one after page 1, and one after page 5. Contents: Three architectural sketches: perspective studies and vaulting designs. One sketch of a seated girl.

Dimensions

12.4 x 17.7 x 0.5 cm (4 7/8 x 6 15/16 x 3/16 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.