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: 1946.35.22 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Quai des grands / Augustins 55 / Mon. Hempel / une parabole / Herr Gschilee / Bahrenstrasse 33" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include the name address of a person in Paris, the name and address of a person in Germany, and the words "Une parabole" which is French for an arc or parable. This arc could be a reference to the shape of the fresco 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace' which Leighton was working on at about this time.

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 

Related Paintings/Projects

Image of painting unavailable. Sketchbook or Notebook including Studies made in Italy and Notes on the Wallace Collection
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