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Sketchbook of Greece.
1888
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D Middle 83/GC168/Box 17/Normal/18th-19th c./Sketchbooks GA 2003.00015
- Publisher
- 1888.
- People
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- Author
- Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
- Language
- No linguistic content
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Sketchbook of Greece.
- Call Number
- D Middle 83/GC168/Box 17/Normal/18th-19th c./Sketchbooks GA 2003.00015
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc1g05fr284
- Publisher
- 1888.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1888
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 30.1 x 21 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Pencil drawings on wove paper
- Item description: Sketchbook containing forty-five leaves, with drawings primarily on rectos, most with captions and dated by Crane between 27 April and 14 May 1888. Approximately eighty pencil drawings, mostly of Greece (the last six of Northern Italy). Three pencil caricatures of J.R. Abbey laid in.
- Signed in pencil, front pastedown: "Walter Crane, Beaumont Lodge, Shepherds Bush, London, W".
- Inscribed in ink, front pastedown: "These drawings are the work // of my late Father-- // Walter Crane R.W.S. // Signed Lionel F. Crane".
- Item description: Dark green bubble-grain cloth, lettered in ink on front cover "Greece 1888".
- Provenance: From the collection of Major J.R. Abbey, with his ink accession number and date on rear pastedown and with three pencil caricatures of him laid in (sale, Sotheby's London, 19 October 1970, lot 2697).
- Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth A. Lohf, with his bookplate on chemise (sale, Christie's New York, 20 November 1992, lot 40).
- Depiction: The full-page drawings include Temple of Jupiter, Parthenon & Acropolis, Temple of Nike Apteros, Temple at Sunium, Venice, Madonna del Sasso Locarno, and others.
- Item description: Chemised in red cloth slipcase.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 58
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f9178b2-d253-48d4-9d8b-cb5ef5786283/manifest