Sketchbook ("Torre Galli"): Architectural and Animal Sketches
1856 - 1925
John Singer Sargent
American
Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; and remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper, with semi-circular oil stain on each. Sewn page block. It is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining.
The sketchbook contains seventeen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink at the upper right corners. Many of the pages are loose in the album, as the binding is broken. An oil stain has saturated the top center of all of the pages in the sketchbook. Two pages following page 4 are missing.
Contents: Oxen, architectural elements.
Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers