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Album Page, Sketches of Château de Fontainebleau
This is a Album page. It was created by Whitney Warren Jr.. It is dated May 8, 1888 and we acquired it in 1943. Its medium is graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. William Greenough.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
- Drawing, Perspective Rendering of the Chateau de Verneuil, France
- pen and brown ink, brush and blue, gray wash on wove paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1911-28-72
Its dimensions are
31.4 x 24 cm (12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.), irregular
It is inscribed
Recto, in graphite, upper right corner: 30; lower right corner: 28; clockwise from center: Pavillion S...ly / Fontaine bleau / May 8- 1888; Tour de l'Horloge; These are the first sketches made in 1888 after six months at the school where / I did no free hand drawing whatever - (they are very bad); Pavillion sur cour du cheval.
Cite this object as
Album Page, Sketches of Château de Fontainebleau; Whitney Warren Jr. (American, 1864–1943); France; graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric; 31.4 x 24 cm (12 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.), irregular; Gift of Mrs. William Greenough; 1943-51-201
