1937.7.14.1-6: Sketchbook: Architectural Sketches
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.7.14.1-6
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Sketchbook: Architectural Sketches
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook
- Date
- c. 1885
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307626
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Sketchbook with brown, blue, and red marbled paper-covered cardboard covers
- Dimensions
- 12.4 x 17.7 x 0.5 cm (4 7/8 x 6 15/16 x 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: back pastedown, paper, printed: Sticker on back pastedown, l.l.: Lechertier, Barbe and Co./ 60, Regent Street, London.
- inscription: back pastedown, graphite: Tuesday Alma Tadema / Weds 1 - Boit / [Sinelly?] / 3 Robinson / 7:30 [Hawthorne?] Thursday 12 M. [Rotchin?] / [in black ink:] 3 Tadema / 5:40 [ ] La[ ] / Friday-- White evening / Saturday - 8 Playfair, 12 1/2 Boit / Sunday 11 [Henthing?] / Monday 6. [Cans?] 7:30 Abby [ ] /[in graphite:] Tuesday - [in black ink:] [Jameson?] / Wednesday. Also inscribed, in black ink: Ordered [Wandenberg?] for Lady Playfair / vue 96 - 158, chassis 98 - 160
- inscription: back pastedown, black ink and graphite, in artist's hand: 8th Oct [ ] / £94.13.11 (on previous deposit) / 8th Oct added 176. [In graphite:] Heatherly's / Newman St. - Oxford St.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1937.7.14.1-6
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Sketchbook with brown-, blue-, and red-marbled-paper-covered cardboard covers and blue-leather-covered spine. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with six pages remaining. Four drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners. At least two pages have been removed: one after page 1, and one after page 5.
Contents: Three architectural sketches: perspective studies and vaulting designs. One sketch of a seated girl.
- Commentary
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Contents: Three architectural sketches: perspective studies and vaulting designs. One sketch of a seated girl.
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. 24
Exhibition History
- Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
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Verification Level
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