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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.1.1-21
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("1868-69"): Travel Sketches and Copies after the Antique
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1868 - 1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307650

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine
Dimensions
20 x 30 cm (7 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front of album, black ink on paper: 1868 - 9
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: Professor Attwell [K. O. C.?] / Nassau School / Barnes / London S. W.

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
1937.7.1.1-21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white, beige, and brown wove paper. Numbered in red-brown ink at upper right; also in graphite at lower right. Sewn page block, with pages in gatherings of four. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining. Seventeen drawings. Many of the pages in the sketchbook are unused, and several pages have been removed: between the pages numbered 1 and 2; between 6 and 7; between 7 and 8; between 9 and 10; between 13 and 14; several (5?) between 14 and 15; two between 15 and 16; and between 16 and 17.

Contents: Copies after antique sculpture (Antinous, Hercules) and after Perseus, by Antonio Canova, all in the Vatican. Also, various Alpine landscapes, watercolor of landscape with ruins, caricatures, two men boxing, sailboats.

Publication History

  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine (December 1981), vol. LVI, no. 4, p. 78, note 5
  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 29, note 7
  • Stephen D. Rubin, John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks: A Young Artist's Perspective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1991), p. 13
  • 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, pp. 16-17
  • Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 111
  • 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. 48, under no. 8; p. 49, under no. 9
  • Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), p. 100
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), p. 208 (note 2)
  • Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 35

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