1937.7.13.23: Wall Elevation with Columns and Ornamental Frames; verso: Study for Mabel Hatch Batten Singing

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.13.23

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Wall Elevation with Columns and Ornamental Frames; verso: Study for Mabel Hatch Batten Singing

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

c. 1895 - c. 1916

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/197624

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.5 x 37 cm (10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 23
• inscription: l.c., graphite, in artist's hand: roughly 25 9 allowing for roughly 3 inch of [ ] skirting
• inscription: left edge, graphite, in artist's hand: 12 H 4 1/2
• inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: [1895 D. McK]

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

1937.7.13.23

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The design on the recto is drawn upside down from the book's orientation.

Publication History

• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), verso: p. 126, under no. 340, and fig. 68

Related Works

• 1937.7.13.1-23

  John Singer Sargent

  Sketchbook: Sketches of Architectural Ornament

  Drawings

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