Sheet of Notes

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Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.4 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Ashridge - / Ly M / Baddington sale / Holland's Canty. Patg. - / Val cat 1 - Exh. 3 / Costa / P - Richmond / Part VII / legros chaud & 1 - lecture - / Lehman 3 Fes[?] - / Halle 3 / Armstrong - Lecture - / Wortley - / Aitchison. door.

Interpretation

Notes including references to George Aitchison (architect of Leighton House, 1825-1910), Alphonse Legros, (French painter, etcher, sculptor and art teacher, 1837-1911), Rudolph Lehman, (painter, 1819-1905), Charles Halle (co-director of the Grosvenor Gallery, 1846-1919), and Thomas Armstrong (painter and designer, 1832-1911).

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.