Sketchbook ("Carrara"): Sketches of Quarry Workers

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Stapled page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining. Eighteen drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook, including one page after page two, possibly one or more after page four, one after page six one after page 12, and possibly three after page 13. Contents: Studies of workers at a marble quarry, Carrara, Italy; cows and goats; rope; sketches of architectural vaulting; a mountain peak.

Dimensions

25.3 x 36.4 x 1 cm (9 15/16 x 14 5/16 x 3/8 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.