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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
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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

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