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Sketchbook, 1920: PD.61-1994

Object information

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Titles

Sketchbook, 1920

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen

Categories

Description

Coverboards covered with white linen. Off-white paper. Collocation: four gatherings containing the following number of leafs: eight (one attached to front cover); seven (one has been removed); five (three have been removed); six (two removed and one attached to back cover). Studies of outdoor scenes, some annotated, some portrait studies, three of 'Sophy', a baby, titled.

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1920

Note

This sketchbook contains preliminary drawings for the following engravings: 'David Old' [102] 1920/21. 'Duck Pond' [96] 1920.

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Coverboards Height 234 mm Width 142 mm
Sheet Size Height 235 mm Width 141 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Scything
  • Location: Outside front cover
  • Method of creation: Black ink

Inscription present: in the artist's hand

  • Text: 19 / 20
  • Location: Spine
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Date

Inscription present: and alongside this, the artist has inscribed some days of the week with periods of time

  • Text: ?Marguerite
  • Location: Inside back cover

Inscription present: sideways the artist has inscribed some lists of pigment mixtures which encroach on to f.24 verso

  • Location: Inside back cover
  • Text: Manufactured by / PERCY YOUNG, / ENGLISH & FOREIGN / ARTISTS' COLOURMAN, / GOWER ST., W.C., / London, England. / (Sketch Books a SpĂ©cialitĂ©.)
  • Location: Inside back cover, lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed label
  • Text: To a child (underlined) / The sweetness of your face,/ The softness of your skin/ The darkness of your eyes/ Draw my spirit in/ O you are brief and passionate/ And fine like a flower/ And God may choose to crush you up/ This, or any hour/ And smother you, for all you are so brave/ In a damp rotten pestilential grave/ or/ And God may crush you beauty up/ Any hour/ And smother you, for all you are so brave/ In a dammed stinking grave.
  • Location: Page 4, recto
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Verse
  • Text: The delicate caressing light/ Falls downward from the sky
  • Location: Page 19 (verso)
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Caption/annotation
  • Text: list of 'prints wanted', 31 titles, 17 struck through.
  • Location: Page 22 (recto)
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: List
  • Text: Elisabeth: "I''m are dot my moo boots on,/vat makes a funny noise in ems/underneath; em sings a little bit,/like em birds in a darden"
  • Location: Page 21 (verso)
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Note
  • Text: Elizabeth: Vy is Sophie singing ven I am/ crying? Doesn't she care if I am saad?
  • Location: Page 19 (recto)
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Note
  • Text: The dentist's villa at evening (underlined)/ The smell of mutton rather overdone/ And on the laurels bitter drops of rain/The smell of ivy dank(?dark) against the wall/ The tired father coming home again/ The grass when the lawn has grown too long/ His coat is rusty black & smells of smoke/ Its all the same as it has always been/And always will be till the world is broke
  • Location: Page 8 (verso)
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Verse

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.61-1994
Primary reference Number: 28185
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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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