Sketchbook: Figure and Object Drawings
DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Sketchbook: Figure and Object Drawings

c. 1877

Artists

Louis Michel EilshemiusArtist

Description

Sketchbook with paper covers. Front and back cover have stamped/impressed border decoration, and an impressed design of girl in a gazebo with another identical design of a girl adhered over that on the front cover. Twenty-three pages, of off-white wove paper, 21 x 16.8 cm. Drawings are in graphite unless otherwise noted. Pages oriented vertically unless otherwise noted. A small piece of paper has been adhered to the inside of the front cover, perhaps to reinforce a thin spot?

Classification
Drawings
Medium
Sketchbook with paper covers
Culture
American
Century
19th-20th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

21.1 x 16.8 x 0.8 cm (8 5/16 x 6 5/8 x 5/16 in.)

Provenance

James Naumberg Rosenberg, New York, NY, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1946.

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