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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.186.1-26
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Album of Drawings after Artists' Portraits
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album
Date
1886
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310163

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album with marbleized-paper-covered covers, leather-covered spine and corners
Dimensions
actual: 33.2 x 21 x 1.3 cm (13 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: 100

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Louis W. Black, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Louis W. Black
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.186.1-26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Album with marbleized-paper-covered covers, leather-covered spine and corners, very worn. Sewn page block. Album leaves of darkened off-white wove paper, 32.5 x 20.1 cm. Contains 38 pages with 110 drawings in graphite on thin off-white wove paper pasted in; spots of adhesive on corners of drawings visible from rectos. At least seven pages have removed from front of book; at least five pages have been torn out following p. 37.

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