Sketchbook ("Munich. July 1st 1884"): Figure and Animal Studies

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with limp brown cloth covers, leather edges; and pencil sleeve. Pages of cream, green, and brown wove paper, with light green endpapers. Sewn page block. Green endpapers, which have been numbered as sketchbook pages. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-six pages remaining; three pages, now numbered in graphite at upper right (8a, 8b, 8c) were cut out and subsequently reinserted. Fourteen drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Three pages have been inserted between pages 8 and 9 and are marked in graphite 8A, 8B, and 8C. Several pages were removed before the book pages were numbered, including three pages after page 1, and three pages after page 14. Eight pages have been cut out following page 8, but three of these are loose in the sketchbook. A number of pages are blank; on more than one of the blank pages is visible a watermark: CF [and a design]. Contents: Figure studies, studies of snakeskin, the crucified Christ, a Javanese head(?), sketches of an eagle's head and talons, figures in a boat.

Dimensions

10 x 16.7 x 0.6 cm (3 15/16 x 6 9/16 x 1/4 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.