19th-20th century
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.
26.2 x 37.5 x 1.2 cm (10 5/16 x 14 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
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.
Graphite on gray-yellow paper
20th centuryRussianGraphite on darkened off-white wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite, pen and black and brown ink, watercolor, and brown wash, with a border in red crayon, on white wove paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchColored and metallic marker on paper
Brown ink and violet wash on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishWhite and red chalk on brown wove paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite on ivory wove paper
19th centuryAmericanGraphite on paper
20th centuryAmericanPastel on canvas
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on paper
20th centuryGermanGraphite on off-white wove paper
20th centuryAmericanColored marker on paper