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: 1946.35.29
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Wil [illegible] letter of introduction / Gainsborough - yg. man / x constable mill / fees [two illegible words] 12 / cab 5 / fare Bristol 1.10.6 / Bill -15- / Fares - cabs - 25 / [illegible] 4-7.6 / Ashridge 1 / fares in town .15. / 6.2.6

Interpretation

Notes on the artist's expenses for travel around the United Kingdom.

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.