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Sketchbook: Sketches of Architectural Ornament

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Sketchbook with light-brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-three pages remaining. Thirty-eight drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are one page after page 7, one after page 14, and one after page 17. Contents: A number of architectural sketches, including vaulting, molding profiles, column bases, and framing devices; sketches for an unidentified composition with flying angels; studies of Mabel Hatch Batten (c. 1895, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum) and Lady Margaret Spicer (c. 1900, private collection); turkeys, a peacock, leaves and branches; a sketch for a crucifix.
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
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Title: Sketchbook: Sketches of Architectural Ornament
Description:
Sketchbook with light-brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties.
Pages of off-white wove paper.
Sewn page block.
Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-three pages remaining.
Thirty-eight drawings.
The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner.
Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal.
Missing are one page after page 7, one after page 14, and one after page 17.
Contents: A number of architectural sketches, including vaulting, molding profiles, column bases, and framing devices; sketches for an unidentified composition with flying angels; studies of Mabel Hatch Batten (c.
1895, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum) and Lady Margaret Spicer (c.
1900, private collection); turkeys, a peacock, leaves and branches; a sketch for a crucifix.

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