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Sketchbook,
1839–1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-78.1-.27
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Didactics
Twenty-three pages of cream wove paper, bound in marbled paper board, with brown leather spine and corners, spine ruled with gold. Sketchbook originally had a total of twenty-six pages (pages 1, 21, and 22 are missing). Of the remaining twenty-three pages, pages 18 verso through 20 recto are blank.;
Information
Title
Sketchbook
Dates
1839–1844
Maker
Medium
Twenty-three pages of cream wove paper, bound in marbled paper board, with brown leather spine and corners, spine ruled with gold
Dimensions
album: 29.1 × 43.8 × 2 cm (11 7/16 × 17 1/4 × 13/16 in.)
sheet: 28.5 × 43.4 cm (11 1/4 × 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1940-78.1-.27
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite: Thomas Cole | 1839
Inscription
in black ink on paper label on front cover: Sketchbook=1839 -18 [torn away] | THOMAS COLE, ARTIST - | Theodore A. Cole
Culture
Type
Materials
Bought from Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, Cole's granddaughter at his Catskill studio
- Louis Hawes, "A Sketchbook by Thomas Cole", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 2-23., fig. 11, p. 16 (illus.); fig. 13, p. 17 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 37, no. 34 (illus.)
- Pamela J Belanger and J Gray Sweeney, Inventing Acadia: artists and tourists at Mount Desert, (Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999).
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 323, checklist no. 533
- Tara Dawson, Bartholomew F. Bland, and Laura L. Vookles, et. al., The panoramic river: the Hudson and the Thames, (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013).
