Sketchbook
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Object Label
This forty-two-page sketchbook contains drawings by the history painter Peter Frederick Rothermel of scenes in Genazzano, Italy, forty miles east of Rome. He documented the local architecture, sculpture, landscape, and people, while also including sketches for narrative subjects. The costumes and daily life of the townfolk are captured in several skillful figure studies, including this image of a man leaning against a stone wall.
Caption
Peter Frederick Rothermel (American, 1817–1895). Sketchbook, 1857. Graphite with ink and watercolor on cream, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 5 11/16 x 8 5/8 x 3/8 in. (14.4 x 21.9 x 1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchase gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg, 1997.129. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
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Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Title
Sketchbook
Date
1857
Medium
Graphite with ink and watercolor on cream, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
5 11/16 x 8 5/8 x 3/8 in. (14.4 x 21.9 x 1 cm)
Signatures
Several pages initialed "PFR" (see Description)
Inscriptions
see Description
Credit Line
Purchase gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Milberg
Accession Number
1997.129
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