Murray Album

Album with blue-cloth-covered cardboard covers and black-leather-covered spine and corners. White silked paper (treated with clay to resemble silk) endpapers. 25 pages of thick wove card attached with cloth guards. Pages numbered in graphite at lower right. Contents: The album was assembled by Sir David Murray (1849-1933), and includes Sargent's sketches and caricatures from Royal Academy meetings [many on Royal Academy stationery]: portraits of Murray, John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), Sir Edward J. Poynter (1836-1919); Andrew C. Gow (1848-1920); Ernest A. Waterlow (1850-1919), Sir Frederick A. Eaton (1938-1913), and a self-portrait. Also, profiles of Madame Gautreau, sketches for the portrait of Lady Eden (1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art); caricature of Mrs. George Mosenthal; three sketches of a female dancer, miscellaneous sketches.