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: 1946.35.35 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Eastnor Castle / [?] Decoration[?] small landscape / Masaccio (Lombard) / Paris [?] Lord Somers / Chas I (Vandyke) / (belonged to Chars / Somers) / (portrait) hand [?] / ( [?] ) Vandyke / (belonged to Ch. / Som)" in silverpoint, in the art

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to Charles Somers, 3rd Earl Somers and Viscount Eastnor (1810-1883), who owned Eastnor Castle.

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.