Sketchbook ("1871-72"): Alpine Travel Sketches and Figure Studies

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white and beige-gray wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with thirty-eight pages remaining. Forty-four drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right hand corner. Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal; missing are one page before p. one; one page after page two; at least one page after page 13; one page after page 25; and one page after page 29. The condition of this sketchbook is fragile; many of the pages are loose and the binding is cracked and brittle. Contents: Tyrolean landscapes and village scenes, probably documenting Sargent's trip through the Alps in the summer of 1871 with the artist Charles Feodor (Karl Friedrich) Welsch, including views of Fragenstein, Längenfeld, Oezthal, Zillerthal, Mayrhofen, Lofererthal, and Zell am See. Also, figure studies, a portrait, and musical score. Same size and manufacture as 1937.7.5.On the front pastedown are sketches of buildings with columns, a figure, and a painting, in graphite. On the back pastedown is a sketchy landscape drawn in graphite.

Dimensions

11 x 17.4 x 1.8 cm (4 5/16 x 6 7/8 x 11/16 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.