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Sketchbook page with inscribed note
Detail of balustrade(?)

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Sketchbook page with inscribed note
Detail of balustrade(?)

Date of Production

1850s

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.2.67

Mode of Acquisition

A.A.D. Harding, bequest, 1954

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Related Works

Sketchbook 2 - Proposal for tour; France, Switzerland, Italy; lessons account book; drawings after architectural detail, Netherlandish draftsmen

Notes

The artist turned the sketchbook around halfway through - the inscription and sketch are therefore upside down.The name 'Mr Cuff' noted here by Harding refers to the artist and engraver Richard Parminter Cuff (1819-1883), who is recorded as living at 7 Owen's Row in the 1851 census. Cuff is listed as 31 years old in the 1851 census, and was active as an artist from around 1842. Given Harding has noted Cuff's name and address from 1851, it seems unlikely that the writing on this page dates from the same period as the entries at the beginning of the sketchbook, which are dated to 1831-33. This entry may indicate that this whole section of the sketchbook - consisting of inverted graphite sketches - dates to the 1850s, suggesting that Harding picked up an old administrative account/travel book with blank pages to reuse as a sketchbook later in his career.

Provenance

James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) and A.R. Harding; by descent to A.A.D. Harding; gift of A.A.D. Harding, 1954.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left, graphite (orientation inverted): 67; upper centre, graphite: Mr. Cuff - / 7 owen's Row / Goswell Road. Verso: centre right, graphite: Inigo Jones-; lower centre, graphite: Inigo Jones-.

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