Studies of Pitchers and Other Objects

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Drawing details

Title: Studies of Pitchers and Other Objects
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: 1946.35.47 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Terracotta / [illegible] / bronze / hand [illegible] / tripods / baskets" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

This may be a list of items required as props for the painting 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace' (1883-86, Victoria and Albert Museum) as similar items appear in the fresco.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Three studies of classical vessels, one study possibly of a hand mirror. 

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.