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.

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A topographic draughtsman, Christoph Eduard Zander, travels with a group of German missionaries in the 1840s to Abyssinia where he lives for the rest of his life.

 

He records the scenery and people of Abyssinia, and includes studies of men and women in traditional clothes and activities, landscapes and vegetation, dwellings, and animals. 

 

Pen and black ink.

 

Artist: Christoph Eduard Zander (1813-1868)

 

British Museum pages for Zander’s sketchbook.
Christoph Eduard Zander 2
A settlement with three huts in a clearing of trees, and stack-shaped rocks in the background; 1853 Pen and black ink with grey wash.1895,0408.6.9, AN99382. Image source: The British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings.
Christoph Eduard Zander 1
Landscape with small dwellings in the foreground and hills in the distance; 12/3/1852. Page 5, 1895,0408.6.5, AN99378. Image source: The British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings.