Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.20: Sketchbook: Portrait Sketches Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook: Portrait Sketches (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.20,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307741. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.7.20 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Sketchbook: Portrait Sketches Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date c. 1895-1901 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307741 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with brown cloth-covered cardboard covers Dimensions 23.6 x 30.1 x 0.5 cm (9 5/16 x 11 7/8 x 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks label: front pastedown, paper, printed: Sketch Book / (Containing 30 Leaves.) / MADE OF WHATMAN'S HAND-MADE DRAWING PAPER. / Manufactured by / Geo. Rowney & Co., / 64 Oxford Street, & 190, Piccadilly, LONDON, / ENGLAND label: front pastedown, paper, printed: TATTERSALL'S / STORES / ARTISTS / COLORMAN / 136, HIGH STREET, / PUTNEY. inscription: front pastedown, u.l., graphite: 11 [E + Y?] / w / - / 3/3 label: back cover, paper and black ink, handwritten: 1890? 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 1937.7.20 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. Eight drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Several pages have been removed, including at least four between the front pastedown and page 1, one after page 2, and at least one after page 9. The page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. As a label on the front pastedown gives the original number of pages (30), it seems that a whole signature may be missing. Contents: Studies for Mrs. Cazalet and her Children (1900-01, private collection) and The Wyndham Sisters (1899, The Metropolitan Museum of Art); female profiles and figure studies, one with a child. 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. 26-27 Related Works 1937.7.20.11 John Singer Sargent Compositional Study for "The Wyndham Sisters;" verso: Female Figure with Pedestal? Drawings 1937.7.20.15 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Inscription Drawings 1937.7.20.6 John Singer Sargent Seated Woman Holding a Child Drawings 1937.7.20.7 John Singer Sargent Two Female Profiles Drawings 1937.7.20.12 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Study for "Mrs. Cazalet and her Children" Drawings 1937.7.20.1 John Singer Sargent Portrait of a Woman Drawings 1937.7.20.10 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Two Compositional Studies for "The Wyndham Sisters" Drawings 1937.7.20.13 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Study for "Mrs. Cazalet and her Children" Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
