Sketchbook ("Lat[e]ish Decoration"): Boston Public Library

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Description

Sketchbook with brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with eleven pages remaining. Eight drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook, including one before page one, one after page one, two after page two, 11 after page eight, and four after page 11. Page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Contents: Sketches for "Judgment" and "Synagogue" at the Boston Public Library, and two sketches of lunettes that appear to be earlier versions of those on the west wall of the Boston Public Library; an angel with a horn, related to the "Judgment" lunette; designs for an archway; male figure studies; mountainous landscape.

Dimensions

26.2 x 37.5 x 1.2 cm (10 5/16 x 14 3/4 x 1/2 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.