Details
Creator Moran, Peter, 1841-1914, artist.
Title [Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882] [graphic].
Publisher United States
Date 1882
Physical Description 1 volume (30 leaves, 50 drawings): graphite and watercolor; volume 18 x 27 cm.(7.5 x 10.5 in.)
Description Sketchbook containing predominantly life studies of animals in pencil. Animals depicted include sheep, cows, horses, goats, dogs, frogs, and a pig. Some sketches are composed as scenes, including depictions of a herd of sheep in a hutch; sheep grazing by a tree on a farm; cows wading in water, and grazing near a creek by a bridge; and a family group of sheep, including a ram. Other sketches show a female figure carrying a bucket (Emily Moran?), landscapes, tree studies, a view of a barn and farm, detailed compositions of a saddle on the back of a horse and a dog laying in the grass, as well as a view, with manuscript notes about color, depicting a fire-ravaged area of forest . Also contains a small number of watercolors of landscapes and pasted in scraps containing sketched studies of sheep, a landscape, donkey, and pig.
Notes Some images include inscriptions, some partially legible, including about dimensions and color.
Inside back cover contains faint sketch of possibly buildings.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
See David Gilmore Wright, Domestic and wild: Peter Moran's images of America (Baltimore: Creo Press, 2010), vol. 1, 45, 71.
Missing front cover.
Subject Cows -- New England.
Dogs -- New England.
Donkeys -- New England.
Farms -- New England.
Forest fires -- New England.
Horses -- New England.
Goats -- New England.
Pigs -- New England.
Saddles.
Sheep -- New England.
Landscape (Representations)
Trees -- New England.
Geographic subject New England -- Pictorial works.
Genre Sketchbooks -- 1880-1890.
Graphite drawings -- 1880-1890.
Studies (Visual works) -- 1880-1890.
Watercolors -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Moran - vol. 3 [P.2011.39c]
Accession number P.2011.39c