Sheet of Notes

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: 1946.35.5 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "[illegible] 8.30am- / Waterloo- / [illegible] Basingstoke [line of text crossed out] / 9.30 / Blandford - 1.30 / 2 Company cook / 1 Bugler. absolutely / 4-4 Men / 30 tent pitch / [illegible] 5 - Art M / 2 - latrine / 2 men / 1 n.c. water

Interpretation

These inscriptions are Leighton's notes on train times and his list of items required for the voluntary Artists' Rifles annual camp.

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.