Sketchbook, c. 1911
Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen
Coverboards covered in black watered silk and grain effect over board. The spine is bound with embossed cloth. Off-white paper. Collocation: five gatherings containing the following number of leaves: five (one attached to the front cover and one cut out); ten (one cut out); ten; ten (one cut out); ten (one attached to back cover, one loose and three cut out). Figure studies and studies for bookplates.
Method of acquisition: Given (1994) by Gurney, Sophie, Mrs
Production date: circa AD 1911 : (? 1909 probably).
This sketchbook probably dating from 1909, when Gwendolen Raveat was at the Slade, contains preliminary drawings for the following wood engravings: 'Wood Nymphs', [21], ?1909/10 P.1146-1974; 'Annie of Rough Royal', [15] ?1909; 'Knight of the Burning Pestle', [1], 1909; 'Fan Anuri' [3] ?1909; 'Travellers [16], 1909; ?'Le Vent' [4], 1909; 'Ursula Darwin's bookplate' [570], ?1909; 'The Marsh', [6] 1909. Also studies for bookplates for Dorothy Lamb (featuring a figure on hands and knees with an animal skin draped over them as a costume) and Geoffrey Keynes (featuring two travellers studying a baby sat by the road). Page 14 has a study captioned 'Tamlaue' or 'Tamlane' (naked travellers on horseback), Page 1 and 10 has 'Annie of Rough Royal' (woman by a pool, one leg raised), there are other studies for this image also.
Grey wash
Blue ink
Blue wash
Graphite
Support
composed of
paper
Coverboards
Height 265 mm
Width 213 mm
Sheet Size
Height 265 mm
Width 213 mm
Accession number: PD.160-1994
Primary reference Number: 27908
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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