Sketchbook
- Object Name:
- Sketchbook
- Object ID:
- 1946.018.44
- Creator:
- Burgum, Emma (1826-1923) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1839-1922
- Description:
- Drawing book by Emma Burgum (1826-1923). Pencil, watercolor, and ink. Yellow cover and back with black binding, front cover printed in ink, "IMPROVED / DRAWING BOOK. / IMRAY& FITCH, LONDON.", with image of Gravesend, England. 22 pages, sketches on back or front of page. Some sketches paired with ink wording. Sketches include studies of portraits, profiles, solo figures and faces, ships/boats, watercolor flower, architectural structures (La Salerie des animause fenvres, Vue du Maure).
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-5.625 W-9.25 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
- Subjects:
- Sketchbooks, Drawings, Ships, Roses, Expositions, Exposition buildings
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