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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.6.1-23
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("1871"): Travel Sketches and Copies after Artwork
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1871
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307652

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine
Dimensions
10 x 15.8 x 1.2 cm (3 15/16 x 6 1/4 x 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front cover, black ink on paper, handwritten: 1871 not important
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: Emily Sargent / from [grand mama?] / [Bolzena? Bologna? Budget?] / 1871
  • inscription: back pastedown, graphite: List of Meissen porcelain marks: 1. A. R. / 2. [design of crossed swords] / 3. [illeg.] / 4. [design of crossed swords with dot] / 5. [design of crossed swords with star] Marcolini / present mark / [design of crossed swords, two times]

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
1937.7.6.1-23
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, buff, and gray wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-three pages remaining. Twenty-four drawings.Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. 18 pages are missing before the first numbered page; one page is missing between pages one and two.

Contents: Figure and animal studies; views in Dresden; copies after paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, by Veronese, Tintoretto, Canaletto, and Marinus Roymerswaele, among others.

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. 19-20
  • 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. 103, n. 15
  • 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
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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