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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.35.8
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Boom of a Sailing Ship
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193181

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and brown wash on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
16.1 x 24.1 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., red-brown ink and graphite: [red-brown ink:] 8 [graphite:] a

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.7.35.8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
This page is part of a segment of a sketchbook that was previously inserted into the back of 1937.7.25. This sketchbook segment is unrelated to that sketchbook.

Publication History

  • Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, p. 34 [whole sketchbook fragment catalogued and described]
  • Sarah Cash, ed., Sargent and the Sea, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2009), pp. 64, 66, fig. 75

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