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Sketchbook: 832/11

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Sketchbook

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Flaxman, John

Categories

Description

Sketchbook with end boards covered with marbled, laid paper. Corners and spine of cover paper cut away to reveal green cover underneath. Contains 50 leaves.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1916-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

School or Style

British

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Height 254 mm Width 201 mm
Cover Board Height 262 mm Width 206 mm

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: within blue printed border

  • Text: 448D
  • Location: Outside front cover
  • Method of creation: Printed label with black ink MS additions

Inscription present: surrounded by printed border

  • Text: AU CHANT DE L' ALOUETTE, / Place du Vieux Louvre, près le / Muséum central des Arts. / NIODOT, marchand Papetier des / écoles de Peintare et Sculpture, tient / en gros et en détail toutes sortes de Pa- / piers, Crayons et Couleurs, pour / le Dessin, les Plans et l'Ecriture, et généralement tout ce qui concerne la / Papeterie.
  • Location: Inside front cover, upper left
  • Method of creation: Printed label pasted down
  • Text: 42 pages
  • Location: Inside front cover, below printed label
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: inscription within square brackets, [ ] in brown ink

  • Text: basrelief at St: George's, figures. 1. f 2I high / 28 bas relieves from Athens, cast from the / Metops of the Temples of Minerva & Theseus / the inside of the Temple of Minerva & those of / St: Georges, in the Plaister Academy in Paris / One marble metop from the Acropolis representing / a centaur seizing a woman, figures 4 ft high / relief 11 Inches. / [Perciev un mont martre pre[?] du Passage du Saumon no. 219] / St Quirico basrelief of Abraham, Isaac / & the Angel / Hatfield Peverell / Essex 18 miles
  • Location: Inside front cover to right of printed label
  • Method of creation: Graphite and brown ink
  • Text: 26 /
  • Location: Inside rear cover, upper left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: Dar Lock
  • Location: Inside rear cover, upper left, below drawing
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: 4"
  • Location: Inside rear cover, upper right
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: upside down

  • Text: 3.5.7.9.10.11.13
  • Location: Inside rear cover, bottom
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/11
Primary reference Number: 40484
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sketchbook" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/40484 Accessed: 2024-11-21 22:41:23

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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/40484 |title=Sketchbook |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-21 22:41:23|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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