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Sketchbook ("Torre Galli"): Architectural and Animal Sketches
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Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper, with semi-circular oil stain on each. Sewn page block. It is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining.
The sketchbook contains seventeen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners. Many of the pages are loose in the album, as the binding is broken. An oil stain has saturated the top center of all of the pages in the sketchbook. Two pages following page 4 are missing.
Contents: Oxen, architectural elements.
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: Sketchbook ("Torre Galli"): Architectural and Animal Sketches
Description:
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties.
Pages of off-white wove paper, with semi-circular oil stain on each.
Sewn page block.
It is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining.
The sketchbook contains seventeen drawings.
The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners.
Many of the pages are loose in the album, as the binding is broken.
An oil stain has saturated the top center of all of the pages in the sketchbook.
Two pages following page 4 are missing.
Contents: Oxen, architectural elements.
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