Sketchbook, ?1912
Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen
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.
Method of acquisition: Given (1994) by Gurney, Sophie, Mrs
Production date: ? AD 1912
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).
Black ink
Blue ink
Black wash
Graphite
Support
composed of
paper
Coverboards
Height 232 mm
Width 141 mm
Sheet Size
Height 233 mm
Width 140 mm
Inscription present: in the artist's hand
Inscription present: accompanied by a passage in Greek, sideways to leaf
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.
Inscription present: not in the artist' hand
Inscription present: 7 lines of verse in Greek, eight line single word ANKMANOC
Accession number: PD.82-1994
Primary reference Number: 28103
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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