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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.18
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("Carrara"): Animal and Figure Studies
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307740

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with brown cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
13.3 x 18.7 x 0.7 cm (5 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: Series A 50 / Whatman Sketch Book, / Canvas Cover. / (Containing 30 Leaves) / Manufactured by / Geo. Rowney & Co. / Artists' Colourmen and Pencil Makers. / London W. England [with sketch of Diana, labelled: Diana / Trademark]
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Turin L[umiere?] / Agent for V[ ] / Calcina & Co. / 25 Via Maria Vittoria / Sept 9 Sch[ ]der - Old Books / Paid c. 5 ft 13/-75 for bld / Map of venice [& books?] / [ ] / on Dec 1st // Florian / No. 3 / [kod?] / [ ] of 6 / Film / Watercolours / Cobalt / Light Red / Viridian / Fixatif
  • label: cover of sketchbook, paper and black ink, handwritten: Carrara
  • inscription: cover of sketchbook, graphite: Carrara

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
1937.7.18
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; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. It contains five drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are one page after page one, one page after page 11, two pages after page 13, and two pages after page 15. As the label on the front pastedown indicates that there were originally 30 pages, one whole signature may have been removed.

Contents: Sketches of workers at a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy; oxen.

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. 25-26
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, Sargent e l'Italia, exh. cat., Ferrara Arte SpA (Ferrara, Italy, 2002), p. 151, note 47

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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