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Brazilian Sketchbook and Journal
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
1865
Medium/Technique
Notebook with manuscript and sketches in pen and ink and graphite
Dimensions
Sketchbook (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.)
Sketchbook (open): 16.8 x 22.9cm (6 5/8 x 9in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Susanna Nash
Accession Number1997.296
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings – Sketchbooks
Catalogue Raisonné
Not in Karolik (1962) cat.
DescriptionForty-four page ruled notebook (mostly text) with diary and sketches of birds; black paperboard binding with red, marbelized endpapers; backstrip missing.
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.