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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.26.1-16
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook: Figures and Animals
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1889
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307716

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
15 x 24.2 x 0.7 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: Lechertier, Barbe & Co. / 60, Regent Street, London

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
1937.7.26.1-16
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve. Pages of cream wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining. Eleven drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are the page before page one, at least one after page three, two after page six, two after page 11, and one after page 12.

Contents: Portraits of several women, including Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Louis-Guérin Helleu, and studies for the portrait of Dorothy (Dolly) Barnard (1889, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); animal studies (apes, cats, and birds); plant study; shipboard scene.

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, pp. 29-30

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