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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.166.1-65
People
Benjamin Champney, American (New Ipswich NH 1817 - 1907 Woburn MA)
Title
Maine Sketchbook
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1878
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with multicolored paper-covered cardboard covers & brown cloth spine
Dimensions
21.4 x 14.5 x 2.2 cm (8 7/16 x 5 11/16 x 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: front pastedown, paper, printed: FROM / FROST & ADAMS / NOS. 33 & 35 CORNHILL, / BOSTON, MASS

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Daniel E. Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, MA, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960. Transaction made through William Bond of Houghton Library.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.166.1-65
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Clothbound book with multicolored paper-covered cardboard covers and brown cloth spine. 139 pages of darkened off-white wove paper, with 63 drawings. Pages following p. 65 are blank and no database records were created for them. Many of the pages are foxed. Drawings are mostly graphite and mostly oriented horizontally.

Exhibition History

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

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