Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.9: Sketchbook ("1872/Dresden"): Figure and Animal Studies Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook ("1872/Dresden"): Figure and Animal Studies (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Mar 25, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/307624. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.7.9 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Sketchbook ("1872/Dresden"): Figure and Animal Studies Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1872 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307624 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with brown paper-covered cardboard covers Dimensions 12.2 x 16.1 x 1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 5/16 x 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: back pastedown, graphite: 6 1/2 label: back pastedown, brown paper, printed: Emil Geller / Kunsthandlung / Dresden / Waisenhausstr. inscription: front pastedown, graphite: [oriented upside down to the rest of the sketchbook:] Left at 8 1/4 / Top of hill 9 / [Engelsburg?]. label: front cover of sketchbook, paper, black ink, handwritten: 1872 - Dresden 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 1937.7.9 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 brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown- cloth-covered spine and corners; [three] pencil sleeves. Pages of off-white, tan, and buff wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-seven pages remaining. Twenty-nine drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. Several pages are missing, including the page before page 1 and four pp. after p. 12 (one of these shows brown ink at the edge; another shows gray wash). The page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Several pages (those between 16 and 23 inclusive) are blank; these blank pages are numbered. Contents: Village scenes, figure studies, animals, some in Dresden, Carlsbad, and Engelsburg. Sailboat, windmill at Sanssouci, Potsdam, watercolor landscape, chairs. Publication History Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), under nos. 9, 14 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. 21 Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 55 Exhibition History Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999 Sargent and the Sea, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/12/2009 - 01/03/2010; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 02/14/2010 - 05/23/2010; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 07/10/2010 - 09/26/2010 Related Objects Object Number 1937.7.9.8 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Figures at the Market (recto and verso) Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.9 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Figure Studies Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.10 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sailboat Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.12 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Headdress; Woman's Profile; Baby in a Walker; verso: Studies of Sleeping Man Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.27 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Blank page; verso: Figure Studies; Water Pump Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.1 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Bird; Animals; Figure; verso: Studies of a Goat Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.2 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Goats; verso: Studies of Deer Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.6 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Windmill at Sanssouci; verso: Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.15 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Woman in Bed Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.26 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Blank page; verso: Mountain Peaks Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.3 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Woman and Animal with Cart; Arcaded Facade; Figure Studies; verso: Woman with Child; Sketches Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.5 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Sketches of Horses, Cows, and Human Heads Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.7 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Man with Grinding Machine; verso: Figure Studies Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.13 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Erased Sketch of Woman in Costume Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.14 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Standing Figures Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.4 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Woman at Market; verso: Figure Sketches; Diagram Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.11 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Cow; Human Head; verso: Studies of a Woman in a Headdress Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.24 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Figure Under a Tree Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.7.9.25 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Blank page: verso: Studies of a Chair and a Stepstool Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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