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Sketchbook: Figures and Animals
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Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve. Pages of cream wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining. Eleven drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are the page before page one, at least one after page three, two after page six, two after page 11, and one after page 12.
Contents: Portraits of several women, including Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Louis-Guérin Helleu, and studies for the portrait of Dorothy (Dolly) Barnard (1889, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); animal studies (apes, cats, and birds); plant study; shipboard scene.
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: Figures and Animals
Description:
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve.
Pages of cream wove paper.
Sewn page block.
The sketchbook is incomplete, with sixteen pages remaining.
Eleven drawings.
The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners.
Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal.
Missing are the page before page one, at least one after page three, two after page six, two after page 11, and one after page 12.
Contents: Portraits of several women, including Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Louis-Guérin Helleu, and studies for the portrait of Dorothy (Dolly) Barnard (1889, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); animal studies (apes, cats, and birds); plant study; shipboard scene.
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