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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.7.1-25
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("1872"): Travel Sketches, Animal and Figure Studies
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Sketchbook: Berlin, Carlsbad, and environs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307653

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with brown paper-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
12.2 x 16.1 x 1.1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 5/16 x 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front of sketchbook, paper, black ink, handwritten: 1872
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: Emil Geller / Kunsthandlung / Dresden / Waisenhausstr
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: 6 1/2 s.

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
1937.7.7.1-25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown- cloth-covered spine and corners; and pencil sleeves. Pages of off-white, brown, buff, and gray-green wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-five pages remaining. Forty-seven drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the top right hand corner. Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are three pages after page eight; at least one page after page nine; and at least one page after page 19. The condition of this sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose.

Contents: Village scenes, figures, landscape and plant studies, and animals (mostly cows and goats) in Germany and Bohemia, including Charlottenburg, Carlsbad, and windmill at Sanssouci, Potsdam.

Publication History

  • John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age: The Documents, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1979), no. IH
  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 40, under no. 9; p. 43, under no. 13, n. 1; p. 44, under no. 14, n. 1
  • 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. 20
  • 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. 113, under no. 44

Exhibition History

  • John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age: The Documents, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10/17/1979 - 12/09/1979
  • 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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