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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.23.1-16
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("Carrara"): Sketches of Quarry Workers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307715

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with brown cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
25.3 x 36.4 x 1 cm (9 15/16 x 14 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: Fine Cartridge Sketch Book / WITH CANVAS COVER. / Containing 30 Leaves. / Manufactured by / Geo. Rowney and Co., / Artists' Colourmen and Pencil Makers. / LONDON, W. ENGLAND
  • stamp: front pastedown, ink: [all in capitals:] W. H. Monk / Artists' Colourman, / 201. King's Road / Chelsea
  • label: cover of sketchbook, paper and black ink, handwritten: Carrara
  • inscription: front pastedown, u.l., graphite: 3200
  • inscription: front pastedown, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: First stop / Beato [Touri or Tower?]

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
1937.7.23.1-16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Stapled page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining. Eighteen drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook, including one page after page two, possibly one or more after page four, one after page six one after page 12, and possibly three after page 13.

Contents: Studies of workers at a marble quarry, Carrara, Italy; cows and goats; rope; sketches of architectural vaulting; a mountain peak.

Publication History

  • Doreen Bolger Burke, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, 1980), p. 267, ill. p. 268
  • 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. 28
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, Sargent e l'Italia, exh. cat., Ferrara Arte SpA (Ferrara, Italy, 2002), p. 151, note 47, and p. 262, under no. 42
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), pp. 249-250

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

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