[studies for 'Odes by John Keats' illustrations]

Date: 1923
Maker: Vivien Gribble (1888-1932)
Dimensions:
Image: 30 x 52 mm (3 x 5.2 cm)
Sheet: 61 x 89 mm (6.1 x 8.9 cm)
Image: 30 x 52 mm (3 x 5.2 cm)
Sheet: 57 x 90 mm (5.7 x 9 cm)
Image: 49 x 48 mm (4.9 x 4.8 cm)
Sheet: 71 x 126 mm (7.1 x 12.6 cm)
Image: 49 x 49 mm (4.9 x 4.9 cm)
Sheet: 71 x 98 mm (7.1 x 9.8 cm)
Image: 45 x 45 mm (4.5 x 4.5 cm)
Sheet: 128 x 202 mm (12.8 x 20.2 cm)
Image: 100 x 115 mm (10 x 11.5 cm)
Sheet: 112 x 153 mm (11.2 x 15.3 cm)
Medium: 1-4: in pen; 5-6: in pencil 1-3 on light laid paper; 4-5 on wove paper; 6 on laid paper
Object number: F.2010.805.1-6.M
Descriptionvarious studies for illustrations for 'Melancholy' or 'Nightingale' designed by Gribble for 'Odes by John Keats'
all six show women looking our of window, head in hands, or under tree, head in hands
1-rectinlinear ground, woman looking out of window with spotty curtains, hand on window sill
2-as above, but figure has one hand on window sill and one hand on face
3-at window, spotty curtains, resting head on fore arm which is on window sill (on circular ground)
4-as above, figure has both arms resting on window sill
5-two drawings - woman on knees looking at landscape, flanked by columns (both on circular grounds)
6-female figure kneeling with head in hands, surrounded by scribbles suggesting circular ground, sketches of cuboid forms on verso