Through the Sketchbook

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.

This web site and all images are for education purposes only.

Visual images on this web site are copyright protected - permissions were sought and received to the best of my knowledge and ability.

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This is the album of figure studies from the theatrical productions the artist, Lady Wharncliffe, attends from 1807-09. Characters, gestures, action, and costumes are sketched sometimes in color. Sketching is one of Lady Wharncliffe’s past-times, which includes singing, playing the guitar, spinning (wool), and feeding her bantams (birds). All of which are appropriate for a woman in her time and from a well connected, wealthy, English family.

 

Pencil, and ink, on paper.

 

Artist:Lady Wharncliffe.

 

The online archive of the complete sketchbook at the Tate.

 

(All images are Part of Album of Figure Studies. Untitled, date not known, Lady Wharncliffe (née Lady Caroline Mary Elizabeth Creighton) c.1776–1853, Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996. Photo: Tate)