Sketch-book
Sketch-Book
1843-1846 (drawn)
1843-1846 (drawn)
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Sketch-book containing figure, costume, landscape, literary, genre, and tree studies. 128 pages (including several blank and 4 cut down) of white wove paper half-bound in brown calf. It includes one page of figure studies of Near Eastern men and women, and another of miscellaneous studies, including an Arab male figure.
Object details
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| Title | Sketch-book (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Most pencil, some pen and ink and watercolour |
| Brief description | Sketch-book containing figure, costume, landscape, literary, genre, and tree studies. 128 pages (including several blank and 4 cut down) of white wove paper. 1843-6. Frederick Charles Cooper |
| Physical description | Sketch-book containing figure, costume, landscape, literary, genre, and tree studies. 128 pages (including several blank and 4 cut down) of white wove paper half-bound in brown calf. It includes one page of figure studies of Near Eastern men and women, and another of miscellaneous studies, including an Arab male figure. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 1st page inscribed Fredk. Chas. Cooper Jany. 1843. and British Costume. and in different hands Costume Francaise par Hervé, Cooper (Frederick Charles) Ex 1844-1868, and Ill. to Layard's Nineveh. 2nd page inscribed with list of 15 Drawgs. lent to the London Institute Apl 14th/56, [nos.5 and 15 possibly identifiable with SD262 & 264.] Some drawings on subsequent pages inscribed and some dated 1846. (See also SD1289) |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Christie's, South Kensington, 28.7.80 (112).' |
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| Accession number | SD.270 |
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| Record created | December 28, 2007 |
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