Sketchbook: Figures and Animals

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve. Pages of cream wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining. Eleven drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are the page before page one, at least one after page three, two after page six, two after page 11, and one after page 12. Contents: Portraits of several women, including Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Louis-Guérin Helleu, and studies for the portrait of Dorothy (Dolly) Barnard (1889, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); animal studies (apes, cats, and birds); plant study; shipboard scene.

Dimensions

15 x 24.2 x 0.7 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/2 x 1/4 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.