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Album of Drawings after Artists' Portraits
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Album with marbleized-paper-covered covers, leather-covered spine and corners, very worn. Sewn page block. Album leaves of darkened off-white wove paper, 32.5 x 20.1 cm. Contains 38 pages with 110 drawings in graphite on thin off-white wove paper pasted in; spots of adhesive on corners of drawings visible from rectos. At least seven pages have removed from front of book; at least five pages have been torn out following p. 37.
Department of Drawings
Louis W. Black Gift to the Fogg Art Museum 1956.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Louis W. Black
Title: Album of Drawings after Artists' Portraits
Description:
Album with marbleized-paper-covered covers, leather-covered spine and corners, very worn.
Sewn page block.
Album leaves of darkened off-white wove paper, 32.
5 x 20.
1 cm.
Contains 38 pages with 110 drawings in graphite on thin off-white wove paper pasted in; spots of adhesive on corners of drawings visible from rectos.
At least seven pages have removed from front of book; at least five pages have been torn out following p.
37.
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