Album of Drawings after Artists' Portraits

Artists

Description

Album with marbleized-paper-covered covers, leather-covered spine and corners, very worn. Sewn page block. Album leaves of darkened off-white wove paper, 32.5 x 20.1 cm. Contains 38 pages with 110 drawings in graphite on thin off-white wove paper pasted in; spots of adhesive on corners of drawings visible from rectos. At least seven pages have removed from front of book; at least five pages have been torn out following p. 37.

Dimensions

actual: 33.2 x 21 x 1.3 cm (13 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Louis W. Black, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.