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Sketchbook of Figure and Landscape Subjects

The execution of sketches and studies was a crucial part of Edmonds’s creative process. Many of his drawings exist as independent works--apparently never taken further--but many others represent an initial step in his conception for paintings. This sketchbook, which he began about 1838, includes both types of drawings of a variety of subjects.

Credit: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987

c. 1838 and later

Drawings in graphite and pen and brown ink on off-white wove paper, bound in marbled paper with leather spine and corners

16.8 x 21.0 in

1987.196.3

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