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: 1946.35.6
Inscriptions: Inscribed "copper cleaner - / steel - sent by luggage / iron backed saw / how [illegible] tin is fastened / adj [illegible] always on [illegible] / string / 20 - 11 - [illegible] / 10.5 1/2 ruler / return / 13.11 [illegible] / 1/2 the min for c [ille

Interpretation

These inscriptions may be Leighton's notes regarding the transportation of a bronze art work.

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.