Sketchbook ("1871"): Travel Sketches and Copies after Artwork
1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
American
Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white, buff, and gray wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-three pages remaining. Twenty-four drawings.Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. 18 pages are missing before the first numbered page; one page is missing between pages one and two.
Contents: Figure and animal studies; views in Dresden; copies after paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, by Veronese, Tintoretto, Canaletto, and Marinus Roymerswaele, among others.
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine