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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.560.1-33
People
Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1786-1792
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298604

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with leather bound covers
Dimensions
20.6 x 16.1 cm (8 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left corner of cover: 65/3; upper right: No 4; lower left corner: 1277; above it in graphite: 6

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, by inheritance; to his niece, Mary Palmer, Marchioness of Thomond (1750-1820), sold; Christie's, London, May 26, 1821, lot 65] to Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), sold; [Christie's, April 28, 1856, lot 1277] to Andrew E. Douglas, New York, sold; [December 15, 1856, no. 2591], sold; to Henry F. Sewall, sold; [Bangs & Co., New York, January 19, 1897, lot 3189] to Dodd, Mead & Co. for $390. William Augustus White (1834-1927, Harvard class of 1863), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.560.1-33
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Reynolds's Sketch-Books", Athenaeum (May 24, 1856), no. 1491, pp. 655-656, p. 656
  • An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts and Prints pertaining to Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Yale University Library Gazette, Yale University Library (New Haven, 1973), checklist no. 79
  • Giovanna Perini, "Sir Joshua Reynolds and Italian Art and Art Literature: A Study of the Sketchbooks in the British Museum and in Sir John Soane's Museum", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1988), vol. 51, pp. 141-168, p. 165
  • "(R)evolution in Art Across the Channel: Reynolds and the Continental Tradition", auct. cat., Société alsacienne pour le développement de l'histoire de l'art (Strasbourg, 1992), p. 219 (note 31)
  • James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 21, repr. (fols. 31 verso and 32 recto), p. 14
  • Giovanna Perini, "I taccuini di Sir Joshua Reynolds: storia, identificazione, circolazione, fortuna", Souvenir d'Italie: il viaggio in italia nelle memorie scritte e figurative tra il XVI secolo e l'età contemporanea, ed. Maurizia Migliorini and Giulia Savio, De Ferrari (Genoa, Italy, 2008), pp. 395-431, pp. 401-407, 409-412, 431 and nn. 50, 53.
  • Giovanna Perini Folesani, Sir Joshua Reynolds in Italia (1750-1752): Passaggio in Toscana, Il taccuino 201 a 10 del British Museum, Leo S. Olschki (Florence, 2012), pp. 3 n. 5, 6, 16-18, 124
  • Giovanna Perini Folesani, "Sir Joshua Reynolds Studia van Dyck a Blenheim Palace", Uno sguardo verso nord: Scritti in onore di Caterina Virdis Limentani, Il Poligrafo casa editrice (Padua, 2016), pp. 335-345, pp. 335-345

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts and Prints pertaining to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 05/01/1973 - 07/31/1973
  • Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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