Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.3.1-41: Sketchbook ("1870-71"): Alpine Travel Sketches Drawings Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook ("1870-71"): Alpine Travel Sketches (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.3.1-41,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 14, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/307607. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.7.3.1-41 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Sketchbook ("1870-71"): Alpine Travel Sketches Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1870 - 1871 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307607 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with green marbled-paper covered cardboard covers Dimensions 24.6 x 36.2 cm (9 11/16 x 14 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: front of sketchbook, black ink: 1870 - 71 label: back pastedown, l.r., paper, printed: G. Volpini via Condotta Firenze 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 1937.7.3.1-41 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Sketchbook with green-marbled-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown cloth spine and corners. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with forty pages remaining. Forty-four drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. Twelve pages have been removed between page 41 and the back pastedown. Contents: Views of the Tyrol from Bolzano to Innsbruck, with watercolors of Längenfeld, Zell im Zimmerthal, and a mountain landscape; Tyrolean village scenes, cattle, heads. Sketches after the figures in Maximillian's tomb in the Hofkirche at Innsbruck, and a drawing after Donatello's pulpit on the exterior of the Cathedral of Prato. 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. 18 Related Objects Object Number 1937.7.3.26 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sketches and Caricatures Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.22 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape with Church Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.28 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Huben Thal from Schönberg Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.31 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Fuscher Thal Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.33 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Figures, Zell am See, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.32 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Band and Villagers, Zell am See, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.35 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.40 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sketch of Girl's Head; Statue of a Female Figure, Draped Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.37 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Branches and Foliage Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.7 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Architecture, Villagers, and Horses Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.12 Artist John Singer Sargent Title King Theoderich of Ostgoten and Queen Juana of Spain, from the Tomb of Maximilian, Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.16 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sketch of a Tree Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.20 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Längenfeld, Oetzthal Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.21 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Wooded Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.24 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Village with Stream, Oetzthal Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.17 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Innsbruck, Austria; verso: Sketches of Figures and Cows Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.18 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Figures and Oxen, with Anamorphic Lettering Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.34 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Seated Figures; Head; verso: Seated Man with Lederhosen Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.36 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Cows Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.39 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Stamberger See Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.38 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Trees; verso: Mountain Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.41 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Figures around a Well; Faces; Horse and Cow Studies Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.5 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sketches of a Bell Tower, Horse, and Head of a Young Girl Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.19 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Innsbruck, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.29 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Farm Building with Child Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.1 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.2 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Pulpit, Prato Cathedral, after Donatello Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.3 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Seated Girl Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.6 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Sketches of a Young Man Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.11 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Village Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.15 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.23 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Gurgl, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.25 Artist John Singer Sargent Title House in the Mountains, Kühtai; verso: Sketches and Caricatures Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.30 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape, Zell im Zillerthal; Reclining Figure (?) Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.27 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Mountain Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.4 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Heads Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.10 Artist John Singer Sargent Title The Schlern from Carmaid Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.9 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Study of Mountains and Christ Carrying the Cross Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.8 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Wooded Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.13 Artist John Singer Sargent Title King Arthur of Britain and Queens from the Tomb of Maximilian, Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.3.14 Artist John Singer Sargent Title King Rudolf I and Graf Albrecht IV, from the Tomb of Maximilian, Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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