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

1895–97
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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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for an advertisement for a tearoom
  • Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York)
  • Date: 1895–97
  • Medium: 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
  • Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35.8 x 28.4 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.954
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two young girls and a woman with a parasol, Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; Verso: pen and red ink and pencil
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38r. A reclining woman; 38v. A woman walking with a parasol, Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, Recto: pencil; Verso: pen and black ink over pencil, bordered in pencil
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35r. A crowd watching fireworks; 35v. A woman walking toward the right, Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, Recto: Watercolor over pencil; Verso: pencil
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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Young girls in hats and sashed dresses, Maurice Brazil Prendergast American, Recto: watercolor over pencil
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