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Sketchbook of Studies for "Fresco Class in Action," University of Notre Dame Fresco

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Sketchbook with black-and-white marbled cardboard covers, black fabric tape over spine. Sewn page block. Piece of old masking tape on front cover. Pages of off-white wove paper, 25.8 x 19.6 cm. Drawings and inscriptions in graphite except where noted. 48 pages, with one page cut out after p. 39 and at least nine pages cut out following p. 44. Pages are numbered at l.r., starting from back of book; drawings [and descriptions here] start at back of book. After p. 40, the book was flipped over and drawings made from the front, on the versos of the pages and upside down from the orientation of the majority of the book. Watermark on each page: ROYAL / WRITING in script.
Department of Drawings Jean Charlot gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1956. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Jean Charlot
Title: Sketchbook of Studies for "Fresco Class in Action," University of Notre Dame Fresco
Description:
Sketchbook with black-and-white marbled cardboard covers, black fabric tape over spine.
Sewn page block.
Piece of old masking tape on front cover.
Pages of off-white wove paper, 25.
8 x 19.
6 cm.
Drawings and inscriptions in graphite except where noted.
48 pages, with one page cut out after p.
39 and at least nine pages cut out following p.
44.
Pages are numbered at l.
r.
, starting from back of book; drawings [and descriptions here] start at back of book.
After p.
40, the book was flipped over and drawings made from the front, on the versos of the pages and upside down from the orientation of the majority of the book.
Watermark on each page: ROYAL / WRITING in script.

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