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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.4.1-22
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("Zillerthal Bavarian Highlands / 1871"): Alpine Travel Sketches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1871
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307623

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
29.6 x 41.7 x 2 cm (11 5/8 x 16 7/16 x 13/16 in.)

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
1937.7.4.1-22
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with black paper covered cardboard covers, brown cloth covered spine and corners; two pencil sleeves; and the remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white and brown wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-two pages remaining. Twenty-one drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right hand corner. Many pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Removed were five pages between pages one and three; four pages between pages five and six; four pages between pages 12 and 13; two pages between pages 16 and 17; one between page 17 and 18; two pages between pages 18 and 19; four pages between pages 19 and 20; two pages between pages 20 and 21; and one between pages 21 and 22. Page two has been cut from the sketchbook and is loose, but still with the book.

Contents: Tyrolean landscapes, including Innsbruck, Zillerthal, Mühlsturzhorn, Hintersee, Zell am See, Vischbachhorn, Mayrhofen; goats.

Publication History

  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 38, under cat. no. 6
  • 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
  • Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), p. 109, under nos. 36/37

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

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