Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for an advertisement for a tearoom

Maurice Brazil Prendergast American

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This ink sketch is probably a design for an advertisement. Images of women drinking tea or hot chocolate in public restaurants appear elsewhere in the Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook. Here Prendergast translates costume in effortless touches of black ink brushwork, affecting an image altogether different from the transparent colors usually deployed.

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for an advertisement for a tearoom, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Recto: pen and brush and black ink over pencil, bordered in pen and black ink over pencil; Verso: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor

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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for an advertisement for a tearoom, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Recto: pen and brush and black ink over pencil, bordered in pen and black ink over pencil; Verso: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for an advertisement for a tearoom, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Recto: pen and brush and black ink over pencil, bordered in pen and black ink over pencil; Verso: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor

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