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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.20
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Murray Album
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Album: Studies after Michelangelo's Tomb of Lorenzo de'Medici; Gilbert Murray
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album
Date
1906 - 1913
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308087

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album with blue cloth-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
30.5 x 25 x 2.5 cm (12 x 9 13/16 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: front pastedown, black ink: T. J. S. S. & D. / London
  • label: back pastedown, paper, printed: S. W. Easton & Son, / Stationers, / 62, Gt. Portland Street, / London, W.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Murray, London, sold; [through Christie’s, London, May 28, 1934, lot 2], sold; [to Martin Birnbaum], gift; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

A number of the drawings in this album were given to Murray (a Scottish landscape painter and Royal Academician, 1849-1933) by Sargent. Murray lived at 1A Langham Chambers, Portland Place, London.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Album with blue-cloth-covered cardboard covers and black-leather-covered spine and corners. White silked paper (treated with clay to resemble silk) endpapers. 25 pages of thick wove card attached with cloth guards. Pages numbered in graphite at lower right.

Contents: The album was assembled by Sir David Murray (1849-1933), and includes Sargent's sketches and caricatures from Royal Academy meetings [many on Royal Academy stationery]: portraits of Murray, John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), Sir Edward J. Poynter (1836-1919); Andrew C. Gow (1848-1920); Ernest A. Waterlow (1850-1919), Sir Frederick A. Eaton (1938-1913), and a self-portrait. Also, profiles of Madame Gautreau, sketches for the portrait of Lady Eden (1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art); caricature of Mrs. George Mosenthal; three sketches of a female dancer, miscellaneous sketches.

Publication History

  • "Drawn at a Meeting of the Council of the Royal Academy", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, May 2, 1925)
  • "Drawn at a Meeting of the Council of the Royal Academy", The Morning Post [London] (London, England, before May 2, 1925)
  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 30, note 30
  • 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. 38

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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