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Sketchbook: Architectural Sketches

Sketchbook: Architectural Sketches

1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

American

Sketchbook with brown-, blue-, and red-marbled-paper-covered cardboard covers and blue-leather-covered spine. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with six pages remaining. Four drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners. At least two pages have been removed: one after page 1, and one after page 5. Contents: Three architectural sketches: perspective studies and vaulting designs. One sketch of a seated girl.

Sketchbook with brown, blue, and red marbled paper-covered cardboard covers

Drawings