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Sketchbook, ?1912: PD.82-1994

Object information

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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

  • Text: GR
  • Location: Spine

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 SpĂ©cialitĂ©.)
  • 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

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