Sketchbook of Figure and Landscape Subjects
ca. 1838 and later
Medium
Drawings in graphite and pen and brown ink on off-white wove paper, bound in marbled paper with leather spine and corners
Dimensions
Cover: 6 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (16.8 x 21 cm) Sheets: 6 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (16.8 x 21 cm)
Classification
Sketchbook
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987
Accession Number
1987.196.3
Tags
About the Artist
Francis William Edmonds · 1806–1863
Francis William Edmonds, born on November 22, 1806, in Hudson, New York, into a prominent Quaker family as the seventh child of storekeeper and public servant Samuel Edmonds and Lydia Worth Edmonds, displayed remarkable artistic talent from youth. After Quaker schooling and farm work, he entered banking in 1823 as a clerk at the Tradesmen's Bank in New York City under his uncle Gorham Worth, a pat...