Sketchbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Julie Baugnet COVID-19 sketchbooks and notes
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032762793]
Identifier: MSS 16928
Content Description
This collection contains two notebooks and two sketchbooks kept by Julie Baugnet, a book artist and painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. The notebooks contain Baugnet’s observations of epidemiologists and other experts as well as other information on COVID-19 that was being publicly disseminated and notes for her COVID-19 projects. “Covid Notes #1” is dated February 21, and features Baugnet’s notes on Dr. Michael Osterholm’s podcast on the pandemic. On the cover of the notebook is “info for my...
Dates:
2020-2022
Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762938]
Identifier: MSS-16959
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos...
Dates:
1907-1918
Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762938]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0045
Florence Eleanor Paget sketchbook and herbaria, 1900-1910
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Florence Eleanor Paget (1887-1965) was a professional nature illustrator and artist from England who studied under George Vernon Stokes, a British wildlife and landscape artist. She made these books when she was a young woman, roughly between 1900 and 1910. One oblong linen book is labeled "Sketches" in pencil on the rear cover, and the owner's signature is on the pastedown in the front of the book. Paget likely drew in the "Sketches" book when she was twelve or thirteen. The...
Dates:
1900-1910
Mid-century Art Student's sketchbook, most likely living in New York City, 1952 March-June
File — Box 13: [Barcode: X032762537], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a spiral-bound sketchbook belonging to an unnamed art student, most likely living in New York City. Page one of the sketchbook details the student’s assignment: “DUE - 300 by June 2nd, Marked Chronologically.” Traces of what may be an owner’s name and grades of “B” and “B+” are written on the cover. Each sketch is numbered in pencil and is stamped between...
Dates:
1952 March-June
The Devil's Steeplechase
Collection — Box BW 54, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16787
Content Description
This collection contains an anonymous sketchbook containing a highly illustrated handwritten gothic story, additional watercolor paintings, and numerous pen and ink sketches. The primary story pertains to a horse race between the devil and death that takes place on March 12, 1830. It is likely a satire on the first English National Steeplechase, which was run in Bedfordshire on March 8, 1830, and was the precursor of the Grand National race at Aintree. Nine full-page watercolors are devoted...
Dates:
n.d, c.1830
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 67 Florence Eleanor Paget sketchbook and herbaria
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0139
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 68 Midcentury Art Student's Sketchbook
Unprocessed Material — Box 13: [Barcode: X032762537], Folder: 6
Identifier: ViU-2024-0140