Sketchbook
- Object Name:
- Sketchbook
- Object ID:
- 1946.018.39
- Creator:
- Burgum, John (1826-1907) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1862-1899
- Description:
- Sketchbook by John Burgum (1826-1907). Pencil and purple ink. Bound in red buckram. On inside of front cover, written in pencil, "White Mts." 80 pages in total, but only 15 pages have actual drawings. Sketches are of scenes in the White Mountains, including Chocorua, Conway, Bald Mt. and Moxie Lake, Kearsarge, Tecumseh, Campton, Durgin Hill, Welch, Cannon, Lafayette, Prospect, and a camp scene, as well as three ink sketches of rocks in California. On last page of book is a list of notes by date, July 1 to August 15, mostly places in the Jackson area, written in pencil. Printed paper label in upper left corner inside back cover: "A.R.GAY & CO. / STATIONERS / BOSTON."
- Material:
- Paper
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-6.9 W-4.3 D-0.6 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor is grandson of John Burgum (1826-1907) and Emma Gannell (1826-1923), the adopted daughter of Countess Rumford. Donor's father was Edwin Gannell Burgum (1858-1948).
- Credit Line:
- The Edwin G. Burgum Collection
- People:
- Burgum, John (1826-1907)
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