Sketchbook

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

George Cruikshank

Title

Sketchbook

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1812–1878

Medium

Sketchbook with 16 leaves and 34 pages (including endpapers) of drawings in graphite, many with watercolor, pen and ink or gouache, on cream wove paper, with additional drawings on wove and laid papers tipped in, bound with worn calf-covered boards and in a red levant morocco slip case lined in red watered silk

Dimensions

Sheets: 12.5 × 20.6 cm (4 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sketchbook: 13.3 × 21 × 1 cm (5 1/4 × 8 5/16 × 7/16 in.); Slipcase: 23.4 × 15.6 × 2.6 cm (9 1/4 × 6 3/16 × 1 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John W. Taylor, Mrs. Winthrop M. Robinson, Jr. and Mrs. Fred D. Sauter from the Estate of Frances Hooper

Reference Number

1986.1579

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