Sketchbook: Figure, Animal, and Architectural Sketches

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with red-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with 14 pages remaining. Eight drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Several pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are one page after p. 1, more than one page after p. 4, one page after p. 12, and several pages at the end of the book. Contents: Bullfight scenes, inscriptions, designs for ornament, miscellaneous sketches.

Dimensions

13.2 x 18.8 x 0.8 cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/8 x 5/16 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