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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.5.1-29
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("1871"): Alpine Travel Sketches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1871
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307651

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine
Dimensions
11 x 17.4 x 1.4 cm (4 5/16 x 6 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front cover, black ink, handwritten: 1871

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
1937.7.5.1-29
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, tan, and gray wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with thirty pages remaining. Thirty-three drawings. Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are one page after page one, one page after page 14, and two pages after page 15. The condition of this sketchbook is fragile; many of the pages are loose. One page (between page eight and nine) was apparently missed during the initial numbering, and that page was subsequently designated "8a."

Contents: Tyrolean landscapes, including Bolzano, Innsbruck, Oetzthal, Zillerthal. Figures, costume studies, and animals (mostly cows and goats), with watercolors of a landscape, Innsbruck, and an Alpine farm. Copies after Jan Miel and after Maximilian's Tomb [in the Hofkirche at Innsbruck].

The front pastedown has a sketch of a tree in a circle, drawn in graphite. The back pastedown has an ornamental design in graphite.

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. 19
  • 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. 105 and ff.; p. 110, under no. 39

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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