Sketchbook ("1872"): Travel Sketches, Animal and Figure Studies

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown- cloth-covered spine and corners; and pencil sleeves. Pages of off-white, brown, buff, and gray-green wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-five pages remaining. Forty-seven drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the top right hand corner. Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are three pages after page eight; at least one page after page nine; and at least one page after page 19. The condition of this sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose. Contents: Village scenes, figures, landscape and plant studies, and animals (mostly cows and goats) in Germany and Bohemia, including Charlottenburg, Carlsbad, and windmill at Sanssouci, Potsdam.

Dimensions

12.2 x 16.1 x 1.1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 5/16 x 7/16 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.