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Sketchbook (Lake District)

A work made of sketchbook with drawings in graphite on ivory wove paper, laid down on drawings in pen and black ink on cream wove paper.

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  • A work made of sketchbook with drawings in graphite on ivory wove paper, laid down on drawings in pen and black ink on cream wove paper.

Date:

before 1875

Artist:

Margaret Lilias Sumner
British, 1859–1919

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Margaret Lilias Sumner

Title

Sketchbook (Lake District)

Place

United Kingdom (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1875

Medium

Sketchbook with drawings in graphite on ivory wove paper, laid down on drawings in pen and black ink on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed inside front cover, in graphite: “L. S. / from / M. L. S. / Xmas. 1875.”

Dimensions

Closed book: 13.7 × 17.2 × 1.3 cm (5 7/16 × 6 13/16 × 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Meg and Mark Hausberg Fund

Reference Number

2021.163

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