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- James Boswell 1906–1971
- Title
- Sketchbook, with ‘1953’ inside front cover
- Date
- 1953
- Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Ruth Boswell, the artist's widow in 1982
- Reference
- TGA 8224/49
Description
Ink, crayon, graphite and watercolour on paper, 259 × 205 mm
Page 1, part of deck of a boat with two funnels
Page 2, detail of the base of a ship's mast
Page 3, studies of boat funnels, chimney, lamp post and mast
Page 4, deck of a boat with control cabin
Page 5, front, mast and folded sail of a boat
Page 5, back, small studies of a jockey, heads and a kneeling figure at prayer
Page 6, seated woman reading a newspaper
Page 7, junction of two streets
Page 8, study of King's Cross Station
Page 9, busy street corner
Page 10, menswear shop on street corner
Page 11, man in an overcoat standing in front of two pictures on a wall
Page 12, man and woman with a dog and a box containing a cat
Page 13, top half of a reclining woman
Page 14, studies of a sleeping cat
Page 15, wall drawn from two different angles
Page 16, head and shoulders of a woman looking down
Page 17, blank
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