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Album; Studies for "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library
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Album with green-cloth-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine and corners; additional protective cloth flaps [inside]; and remains of green silk ties. Marbled-paper-covered endpapers. Stamped in gilt on front cover and spine: STUDIES FOR ISRAEL AND THE LAW. Drawings adhered to paper guards with cloth tape and bound with 111 interleaving sheets of cream wove paper. Drawings numbered in red pencil at lower right.
Contents: Studies of figures and details from the lunette depicting "Israel and the Law," on the east wall of the Boston Public Library. Details include drapery studies, studies of arms and legs, and positional studies for the angels at the sides of the painting; also featured are sketches of a female model (Beatrice Stuart) who apparently modeled for the faces of the angels. One sketch of a vaulting with Hebrew letters inscribed. Bound in with these drawings is a figure study for "Atlas and the Hesperides," a rondel at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Department of Drawings
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Title: Album; Studies for "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library
Description:
Album with green-cloth-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine and corners; additional protective cloth flaps [inside]; and remains of green silk ties.
Marbled-paper-covered endpapers.
Stamped in gilt on front cover and spine: STUDIES FOR ISRAEL AND THE LAW.
Drawings adhered to paper guards with cloth tape and bound with 111 interleaving sheets of cream wove paper.
Drawings numbered in red pencil at lower right.
Contents: Studies of figures and details from the lunette depicting "Israel and the Law," on the east wall of the Boston Public Library.
Details include drapery studies, studies of arms and legs, and positional studies for the angels at the sides of the painting; also featured are sketches of a female model (Beatrice Stuart) who apparently modeled for the faces of the angels.
One sketch of a vaulting with Hebrew letters inscribed.
Bound in with these drawings is a figure study for "Atlas and the Hesperides," a rondel at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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