Sketchbook ("1872"): Travel Sketches, Animal and Figure Studies
1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
American
Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown- cloth-covered spine and corners; and pencil sleeves. Pages of off-white, brown, buff, and gray-green wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-five pages remaining. Forty-seven drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the top right hand corner. Several pages are missing and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are three pages after page eight; at least one page after page nine; and at least one page after page 19. The condition of this sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose.
Contents: Village scenes, figures, landscape and plant studies, and animals (mostly cows and goats) in Germany and Bohemia, including Charlottenburg, Carlsbad, and windmill at Sanssouci, Potsdam.
Sketchbook with brown paper-covered cardboard covers