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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.19.2-19
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook; Animal Sketches: Sketches for the Boston Public Library Murals
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
c. 1890 - c. 1916
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307713

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
12.7 x 10.2 x 0.7 cm (5 x 4 x 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, u.l., paper, printed: Roberson's / Medium / Colours / Brushes / C. ROBERSON & CO. LTD. / 99 LONG ACRE & 155 PICCADILLY / LONDON [with design of two men painting]

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
1937.7.19.2-19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Perforated inner margins. Sketchbook is incomplete, with forty-six pages remaining. Twenty drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Several pages have been removed from the sketchbook, apparently before the numbering. Missing are one page after page seven, one page after page eight, one page after page nine, possibly two after page 19, one after page 20, and five at the back of the book.

Contents: Sketches of vultures, tigers, goats, wings, Torah scrolls and a finial, made preparatory to the Boston Public Library murals.

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 . 26

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