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Sketchbook, 1910: PD.50-1994

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Titles

Sketchbook, 1910

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen

Categories

Description

Coverboards covered with white linen. Off-white paper. Collocation: four gatherings, containing the following number of leaves: seven (one attached to front cover); seven (one torn out and partially cut, one cut and one missing); eight; eight (one attached to back cover). Blank: 9(verso). Animal and figure studies, also workings for ?bookplates.

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1910

Note

This sketchbook, used while G.R. was at the Slade, contains preliminary sketches for the following wood engravings: ?'The Expulsion' 1910/11; 'The Murderer' ?1910/11; 'The Dead Knight' 1910; 'Sir Thomas Browne' 1910; 'Margaret's Ghost' 1910; 'The Brown Girl' 1910; 'Anthony and Cleopatra' 1910; 'May Morning' 1910. There are studies of pigs and lambs: pages 1-6(recto) alsp page 19(verso). There are bookplate studies for Dorothy Lamb, Philip Jourdan and Corbie Crow on pages 13-16, also possibly on the missing page parts previous to them. Page 22 and 23 (recto both) have ?bookplate studies related to 'the Philospher and Death'. There is a portrait study identified as Fanny/Leitita Favres?

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Grey wash
Black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Coverboards Height 230 mm Width 140 mm
Sheet Size Height 231 mm Width 140 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: it appears the word 'Spécialité' has been altered to read 'Speciality'.

  • Text: Manufactured by / PERCY YOUNG, / ENGLISH & FOREIGN / ARTISTS' COLOURMAN / GOWER ST., W.C., / London, England. / (Sketch Books a Spécialité.)
  • Location: Inside back cover, bottom left
  • Method of creation: Printed label. (There is also a graphite figure study)

Inscription present: An ink blot has obscured much of the date, the last digit could be 0 or could be the top loop of an 8 or a 2 etc.

  • Text: March April 1[??]0
  • Location: Front cover, top right
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: marks as if testing pen, including outline sketch of arm and back of animal (?dog) with bobbed tail.
  • Location: Inside front cover
  • Method of creation: Pen and black ink
  • Text: Prithee said he forget forget/Prithee forget forgive/O grant me yet a little space/That I may be well & live// O never never will I forget/So long as I have breath/I'll dance above your grass green grave/While you do lie beneath.
  • Location: Verse 1: base of Page 24 verso Verse 2: top of Page 25 recto
  • Method of creation: Pen and black ink
  • Type: Verse

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.50-1994
Primary reference Number: 27870
Study: PD.92-1994

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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