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CRANE, WALTER. Sketchbook containing approximately 80 pencil drawings, mostly of Greece (the last six of Northern Italy), on 45 leaves of fine wove paper, mostly on rectos, mostly with captions and dated by Crane between 27 April and 14 May 1888, small folio, 304 x 214mm. (12 x 8 3/8in.), dark green bubblegrain cloth, some foxing, cloth slipcase.
Full-page drawings include Temple of Jupiter, Parthenon & Acropolis, Temple of Nike Apteros, Temple at Sunium, Venice, Column of S. Mark, Madonna del Sasso Locarno and others. Smaller subjects, grouped on single pages include Pireaus, Corfu as well as various studies of peasantry, animals, landscape views and details of antiquities. A fine album and in larger format than the two sketch books of Capri, Amalfi and the Elbe from the Benz collection (sale in these rooms, 16 November 1984, lot 70).
Provenance: Inscribed in pencil by the artist on front pastedown: "Walter Crane, Beaumont Lodge, Shepherds Bush, London, W."; inscribed beneath, in ink: "These drawings are the work of my late Father Walter Crane R.W.S. Signed Lionel F. Crane"; Major J.R. Abbey, with his ink accession number and 20 November 1923 date on lower pastedown (also two pencil caricatures of him laid in), sale, Sotheby's London, 19 October 1970, lot 2697.
Full-page drawings include Temple of Jupiter, Parthenon & Acropolis, Temple of Nike Apteros, Temple at Sunium, Venice, Column of S. Mark, Madonna del Sasso Locarno and others. Smaller subjects, grouped on single pages include Pireaus, Corfu as well as various studies of peasantry, animals, landscape views and details of antiquities. A fine album and in larger format than the two sketch books of Capri, Amalfi and the Elbe from the Benz collection (sale in these rooms, 16 November 1984, lot 70).
Provenance: Inscribed in pencil by the artist on front pastedown: "Walter Crane, Beaumont Lodge, Shepherds Bush, London, W."; inscribed beneath, in ink: "These drawings are the work of my late Father Walter Crane R.W.S. Signed Lionel F. Crane"; Major J.R. Abbey, with his ink accession number and 20 November 1923 date on lower pastedown (also two pencil caricatures of him laid in), sale, Sotheby's London, 19 October 1970, lot 2697.