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Sketchbook (Maine)
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Sketchbook with black fabric-covered cardboard covers, held together by two metal rings. An inscription in graphite on the upper left of the inside of the front cover reads "1st Paintings of Maine / NEH -- / Somes Sound." [Somes Sound is written "Soames," though Prentice crossed out the "a"] The pages are of stiff cream wove paper, without a perforated edge. Eighteen drawings, although some pages may have been removed. The drawings are dated in graphite in the lower right corner. There are no drawings on the verso of the sheets. All the drawings are executed in watercolor, and depict landscapes.
Rights: © Elena Prentice
Department of Drawings
Elena Prentice Maine Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums 2004.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Elena Prentice in memory of Gweneth Knight
Title: Sketchbook (Maine)
Description:
Sketchbook with black fabric-covered cardboard covers, held together by two metal rings.
An inscription in graphite on the upper left of the inside of the front cover reads "1st Paintings of Maine / NEH -- / Somes Sound.
" [Somes Sound is written "Soames," though Prentice crossed out the "a"] The pages are of stiff cream wove paper, without a perforated edge.
Eighteen drawings, although some pages may have been removed.
The drawings are dated in graphite in the lower right corner.
There are no drawings on the verso of the sheets.
All the drawings are executed in watercolor, and depict landscapes.
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