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1613696259
Description
Bound sketch-book (114mm x 150) black leather spine with gold tooled bands, green leather cloth cover with title 'Sketches' embossed in gold, and label with date '1866', containing sketches of horses, figure studies, on unnumbered pages
All in graphite unless otherwise stated
Fly leaf recto: scored impression: 'Mimmie Thompson/ Arundel - 66'
Fly leaf verso: detail of coach springs with horse's hindquarters; above, a sketch of a lying horse with anatomical notes
F1r Inscribed: 'Arundel/ 1866/ No 1'; two drawings of horses lying down, one seen from the side the other a foreshorten view from the front; a slight sketch of the head and shoulders of a female figure
F1v The trunk and lower branches of a tree
F2r Sketches of two horses: above, lying down seen from the front, back legs extending onto F1v, the lower a slight sketch of a trotting horse
F2v Two details of a horse's right foreleg
F3r Two lying horses: upper one, its hindquarters seen from the re… (See Merlin record for full description)
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