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Medici Chapel, after Michelangelo; verso: Egyptian Heads; Miscellaneous Sketches

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The sketch was made on Royal Academy letterhead; in red, it is printed "Royal Academy of Arts / London, W. / 190__" The side that is folded in is more finished and thus was considered during cataloguing to be the recto.
Department of Drawings John Singer Sargent gift; to 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. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Title: Medici Chapel, after Michelangelo; verso: Egyptian Heads; Miscellaneous Sketches
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The sketch was made on Royal Academy letterhead; in red, it is printed "Royal Academy of Arts / London, W.
/ 190__" The side that is folded in is more finished and thus was considered during cataloguing to be the recto.

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