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Brazilian Sketchbook and Journal

(American, 1819–1904)
1865
Medium/TechniqueNotebook with manuscript and sketches in pen and ink and graphite
DimensionsSketchbook (closed): 16.8 x 11.4 x 1.3cm (6 5/8 x 4 1/2 x 1/2in.)
Sketchbook (open): 16.8 x 22.9cm (6 5/8 x 9in.)
Credit LineGift of Richard and Susanna Nash
Accession number1997.296
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceSam Heed (artist's nephew); Elsie Housley (his daughter); private collection, N.J., about 1981; with Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1992, lot 13; Charles Sterling; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nash, Bloomfield Hills, MI; gift to MFA, December 1997.
Sketch 1094
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1911–12
Page 20 - South Marshfield
Hammatt Billings
1865
The Katz, on the Rhine
Joseph Mallord William Turner
about 1844
Civil War Soldier in Zouave Cap
Winslow Homer
1862–63
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843
Page 19
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
mid–1830s
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843