Sketchbook ("1869"): Travel Sketches and Copies after the Antique

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, black cloth spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block; gatherings vary. Sketchbook is incomplete, with sixty-five pages remaining. Eighty-eight drawings. A number of pages are missing: one after page 16, and approximately eight after page 17. Contents: Numerous copies after antique sculpture and mosaics in Italian museums, including the Museo Archaeologico, Naples; the Accademis di San Luca, and the Capitoline and Vatican Museums, Rome; also, copies after "David" by Gianlorenzo Bernini and after "Aurora" by Guido Reni. Views of Naples, Mount Vesuvius, Capri, Tivoli, Ancona, Rimini, Frascati, Sorrento, Italian villas and temples. Also caricatures, Tyrolean costume studies, heraldic emblems and armor (Toledo). The front pastedown features a group of figures in watercolor over graphite and five heads in graphite. The back pastedown features drawings in graphite and brown ink of profile heads, a facade of a building with sculpture, and a man with a violin under a palm tree.

Dimensions

15.6 x 24.4 cm (6 1/8 x 9 5/8 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.