Sketchbook ("1868-69"): Travel Sketches and Copies after the Antique

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white, beige, and brown wove paper. Numbered in red-brown ink at upper right; also in graphite at lower right. Sewn page block, with pages in gatherings of four. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining. Seventeen drawings. Many of the pages in the sketchbook are unused, and several pages have been removed: between the pages numbered 1 and 2; between 6 and 7; between 7 and 8; between 9 and 10; between 13 and 14; several (5?) between 14 and 15; two between 15 and 16; and between 16 and 17. Contents: Copies after antique sculpture (Antinous, Hercules) and after Perseus, by Antonio Canova, all in the Vatican. Also, various Alpine landscapes, watercolor of landscape with ruins, caricatures, two men boxing, sailboats.

Dimensions

20 x 30 cm (7 7/8 x 11 13/16 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.