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Sketchbook, ?1912: PD.78-1994

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Titles

Sketchbook, ?1912

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen

Categories

Description

Coverboards covered in white linen. Off-white paper. Collocation: four gatherings containing the following number of leafs: eight (one attached to front cover); three (five probably torn out); seven (one torn out); one attached to back cover (the other seven probably torn out). Two pages with studies of horses: 15(verso) and 16(verso). Full watercolour landscape 1(recto). 'Helena' portrait study 7(verso). 'V? Stephen' portrait study 12(verso). Studies figure with stave 11(recto), 13(verso) and 14(recto). Figure studies 14(verso) and 16(recto). All the rest landscape or nature studies. Many pages not much used. Blank 10(recto/verso).

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1994) by Gurney, Sophie, Mrs

Dating

Production date: ? AD 1912

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Blue ink
Blue-black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Coverboards Height 233 mm Width 142 mm
Sheet Size Height 235 mm Width 141 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: at the top of the leaf, and sideways to it, a number of calculations have been inscribed

  • Location: Inside front cover

Inscription present: upside down

  • Text: La Grande Guerre / - / M. Ed. Sagot / 39 bis Rue de Chateaudun / Paris
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Pen and blue ink
  • Text: A reply to the Quakers / - / With other people's other cheek / Its very easy to be meek / Cheeks of Belgian Serb and Pole / You gladly give to save your sole.
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: Tread softly on his grave O nymphs of Attica. / For he is dead. They say it was sciatic. / Jacques / - /.
  • Location: Inside back cover
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: instructions for various knitting patterns

  • Location: Inside back cover
  • Method of creation: Graphite and pen with black ink
  • Text: Manufactured by / PERCY YOUNG, / ENGLISH & FOREIGN / ARTIST'S COLOURMAN, / GOWER ST., W.C. / London, England. / (Sketch Books a SpĂ©cialitĂ©.)
  • Location: Inside back cover, lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed label
  • Text: Quotations with page numbers from l'adolescent
  • Location: Page 1 (recto) page 3 (recto)
  • Text: Quotations from A Winter's Tale, also Tempest etc
  • Location: Page 2 (verso) page 3 (recto)
  • Text: 'Sheep Donkeys'
  • Location: Back cover
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.78-1994
Primary reference Number: 28097

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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