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Sketchbook

1849 - 1917 (made)
Artist/Maker

Sketchbook containing studies of buildings in the Near East, trees and foliage, birds, human figures and preliminary sketches for oil paintings including 'Ulysses and the Sirens' exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891. 56 pages (8 pages missing) of white wove paper bound in canvas boards.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
pencil and watercolour
Brief description
Sketchbook of drawings by J W Waterhouse
Physical description
Sketchbook containing studies of buildings in the Near East, trees and foliage, birds, human figures and preliminary sketches for oil paintings including 'Ulysses and the Sirens' exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891. 56 pages (8 pages missing) of white wove paper bound in canvas boards.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume, from catalogue height: 14cm
  • Size of volume, from catalogue width: 20.6cm
Credit line
Given by Mr J F Physick
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth, J. W. Waterhouse: the modern Pre-Raphaelite, Groninger Museum, Groningen and Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008 p.222-225, ill. p.228
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1949, London: HMSO, 1961.
Collection
Accession number
E.1-1949

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Record createdMay 30, 2008
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