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