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Sketchbook ("1912--Spain"): Birds and Figure Studies

Sketchbook ("1912--Spain"): Birds and Figure Studies

1856 - 1925

John Singer Sargent

American

Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white laid paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with thirty-three pages remaining. Fourteen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Contents: Architectural study, possibly related to the watercolor "Escutcheon of Charles V of Spain" (1912, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 51.142.11); studies of Spanish dancers, birds of prey, sleeping gondoliers.

Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers

Drawings