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: 1946.35.44
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Devonshire Hs. / - J. Jordaens - / - Rubens / - N. Poussin Shepards [sic] / mscript / - Jacobs children[?] / [line across sheet] / [illegible] Brown / Dobson / P[?] sculpture" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to Jacob Jordaens (Flemish Baroque Painter 1593-1678), and Nicholas Poussin - 'The Shepherds of Arcadia' oil on can (1627), the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.

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.