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Sketchbook with studies for Shakespeare I [sketchbook].

BIB_ID
453965
Accession number
MA 23917.7
Creator
Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph), 1869-1933, artist.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 sketchbook
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Inscribed in pencil on cover: Shakespeare I / Begun March 6th / 1903.
Sketchbook containing preliminary sketches and studies for illustrations for the works of William Shakespeare executed on over half of the volume; the sketchbook was inverted in orientation and recommenced from the other side of the volume when the artist started his new series of drawings for Shakespeare in 1903; earlier sketches and studies of a wide range of subjects, the first of them dated "1895", were executed on the majority of the remaining leaves; with 6 pages of verse in black crayon and annotations and notes in crayon and ink throughout.
12 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (307 x 200 mm)
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on inside cover preceding the Shakespeare series of sketches: about / 127 pp of / drawings / & 6 pp of writing.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Medium
Graphite, charcoal, crayon, and black ink, on paper.