Sketchbook ("1868-69"): Travel Sketches and Copies after the Antique

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, leather-covered spine; stamped in gilt on front cover: ALBUM. Pages of off-white, beige, and brown wove paper. Numbered in red-brown ink at upper right; also in graphite at lower right. Sewn page block, with pages in gatherings of four. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-one pages remaining. Seventeen drawings. Many of the pages in the sketchbook are unused, and several pages have been removed: between the pages numbered 1 and 2; between 6 and 7; between 7 and 8; between 9 and 10; between 13 and 14; several (5?) between 14 and 15; two between 15 and 16; and between 16 and 17. Contents: Copies after antique sculpture (Antinous, Hercules) and after Perseus, by Antonio Canova, all in the Vatican. Also, various Alpine landscapes, watercolor of landscape with ruins, caricatures, two men boxing, sailboats.