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Titles
Sketchbook, ?1912
Maker(s)
Draughtsman:
Raverat, Gwendolen
Categories
Description
Coverboards covered with white linen. Off-white paper. Collocation: four gatherings containing the following number of leafs: six (one attached to front cover, and one cut out); eight (one cut out); eight (one cut out); eight (one attached to back cover, and one cut out). Blank page: 27(recto), 28(recto) - opposite inverted portraits. Figure studies and portrait studies.
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1994)
by
Gurney, Sophie, Mrs
Dating
Production date:
?
AD 1912
Note
Includes portrait identified as Geoffrey Keynes (27, verso), study of a macaque monkey (23, verso), portrait identified as KA Cox (15, verso), portrait identified as Olivier Bagnali (20, verso, inverted, female) portrait identified as Jacques (18, verso, inverted). 'Portrait' possibly of antiquarian statue with headdress (7, verso, inverted), Portrait identified as Jeo(Theo?) Darwin, possibly a self-portrait (5, recto).
School or Style
British
Materials used in production
Black ink
Blue ink
Black wash
Graphite
Components of the work
Support
composed of
paper
Coverboards
Height 232 mm
Width 141 mm
Sheet Size
Height 233 mm
Width 140 mm
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: in the artist's hand
- Text: Camilla Wed 16th
- Location: Inside front cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
Inscription present: accompanied by a passage in Greek, sideways to leaf
- Text: F6 18 / Mch 4 Feb 25
- Location: Inside front cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
Inscription present: the artist has inscribed a list of virtues and vices. Virtues include humour, truth, chastity, beauty, pride, wrath, wisdom, solitude. Vices include dishonesty, prudence, ugliness, respectability, stupidity, humility, pity, unselfishness, faith.
- Location: Inside front cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
Inscription present: not in the artist' hand
- Text: C/O Mrs Watson / 5 Bigwood Rd / Hampstead Way / N.W.
- Location: Inside back cover
- Text: Manufactured by / PERCY YOUNG, / ENGLISH & FOREIGN / ARTIST'S COLOURMAN, / GOWER ST., W.C. / London, England. / (Sketch Books a Spécialité.)
- Location: Inside back cover, lower left
- Method of creation: Printed label
Inscription present: 7 lines of verse in Greek, eight line single word ANKMANOC
- Location: Page 26, sideways on with base towards spine of book
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Type: Verse
Identification numbers
Accession number: PD.82-1994
Primary reference Number: 28103
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
