William Louis Sonntag sketchbook
name: label: Creator
content: Sonntag, William Louis, 1822-1900
place: label: Place
content: White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Description and views
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The mother of donor Stephen Gelman bought this scrapbook in a used bookstore in Upstate New York, c. 1955.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sonntag, William Louis, 1822-1900
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape painter.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869-1870
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sonnwill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3894 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 36 sketches, including 20 bound ink and pencil drawings by Sonntag, many of them titled, signed, and dated. Sketches are landscape views of White Mountain scenery near Shelburne, N.H., where Sonntag summered for much of his life. Other bound pencil drawings in the sketchbook are by a decidedly amateur hand and signed "J H Lauder Aug. 1935." Tucked in the front of the sketchbook are 15 loose pencil drawings of coastal views by an unidentified amateur artist, perhaps by Phil H. Holmes of Gardenia, Maine.