Sketchbook ("1912--Spain"): Birds and Figure Studies

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Description

Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white laid paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with thirty-three pages remaining. Fourteen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Contents: Architectural study, possibly related to the watercolor "Escutcheon of Charles V of Spain" (1912, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 51.142.11); studies of Spanish dancers, birds of prey, sleeping gondoliers.

Dimensions

13.3 x 21.5 x 1.1 cm (5 1/4 x 8 7/16 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.