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: 1946.35.32
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Oriental lady / Koran (Arabic illum / 13th cty) / ADD 25.900 / do 27,261 } Persian / [copy of some Arabic writing]" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

The reference numbers "ADD 25.900 / do 27,261" are possibly notes regarding a manuscript in the British Library or the British Museum. The painting 'Study; at a Reading Desk' (1877, Emma Holt Bequest, Sudley House) includes a Koran and, although it is not shown in detail, these notes may be research for that painting.

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.