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Sketchbook: Mural and Figure Studies

Sketchbook: Mural and Figure Studies

1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

American

Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with 27 pages remaining. Ten drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Pages six through 20R and 21 through 26R are blank, but are still numbered. Contents: Studies for the Boston Public Library: Cherubim design, a study for the panel of "Church" and studies for "Synagogue." Also, figure and head studies; three unidentified portrait sketches and an architectural sketch.

Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers

Drawings