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Sketchbook with Landscapes and Studies of Plants, Figures, and Nudes

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Joseph Anton Koch
1768-1839

Sketchbook with Landscapes and Studies of Plants, Figures, and Nudes

leaves: 7 1/4 x 9 7/16 inches (183 x 240 mm); binding: 7 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches (189 x 245 mm)
Graphite on paper throughout, except for three plant studies in pen and black ink on fol. 3.
1984.37

Purchased on the Herzog Fund and the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Mrs. James H. Ripley.

Notes
Watermark: none.
J.A. Koch used this sketchbook ca. 1818-30. Some nude studies probably by Augusto Koch (1818-1878), son of Joseph Anton. Contains ninety-nine leaves, nine of them blank.
Inscriptions/Markings
Several pages inscribed with locations or color notes.
Associated names
Koch, Augusto, 1818-1878.
Koch, Ottaviano, Commendatore, former owner.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 354-355.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department