Sketchbook ("Carrara"): Animal and Figure Studies

Sketchbook with brown-cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. It contains five drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Several pages are missing from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Missing are one page after page one, one page after page 11, two pages after page 13, and two pages after page 15. As the label on the front pastedown indicates that there were originally 30 pages, one whole signature may have been removed. Contents: Sketches of workers at a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy; oxen.