Sketchbooks and Sketches
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919
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content: Frank Duveneck and Elizabeth Boott Duveneck papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1855-1886
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.duvefran, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been scanned in its entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains four sketchbooks and a group of loose sketches by Elizabeth Boott and three sketchbooks by Frank Duveneck. Elizabeth's sketches include examples of juvenilia as well as mature works. The earliest works include pencil and watercolor profile portraits of intimates of their American circle of friends including Nathanial Hawthorne and Robert Browning as well as a pair of charming self-portraits. Later sketchbooks include figure studies, landscapes and genre scenes executed in pencil, charcoal, conté crayon, and watercolor. Frank Duveneck's sketchbooks contain pencil studies of figures, architecture, landscapes, as well as compositions studies. The smallest sketchbooks includes pencil sketches of Venice that, although much looser in style, recall the artists' monotypes and etchings of the 1880s.