Landscape
Front cover: 1.587- 1.615 mm; Back cover: 1.354- 1.417 mm; Text Block (Leaves): 0.193- 0.202 mm
Artist's notebook (landscape orientation) full bound in brown sized calico. An elastic strap is adhered to the front cover, used to secure the notebook closed. An additional flap fabric is adhered to the head of the back cover (used to hold pencils). Total of four sections of three folded sheets are stapled together (6 leaves in each section; 22 leaves (+2 endpapers) total in original text block). The text block is composed of off-white, wove, hot-pressed paper, with curved foredges. Label sticker is located on the inside of the front cover "Sketch Book of Whatman's Drawing Paper. Series A. :Hot-Pressed" Surface. Reeves & Sons, LTD. London". At some point transported in a brown craft envelope labeled with a black ink stamp "After 5 days return to M. Knoedler & Company, Inc. 14 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y. Return postage guaranteed". Written at the top in graphite "Sketchbook- 1910-1912". Other Moran sketchbooks transported in similar envelopes.
"Thomas Moran, landscape painter, etcher, engraver, lithographer. Born February 12, 1837, at Bolton Lancashire (England) accompanied his family to Maryland in 1844, and studied painting with his brother Edward in Philadelphia during the mid-1850. In 1862 the two Moran’s' went to England for further study and came under the influence of Turner. Thomas visited Europe again in the same decade and several times in the later years. His fame rests largely on his large paintings of scenes in the Far West, including Yellowstone Park, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. His home was in Philadelphia until 1872 when he moved to Newark (N.J.) and shortly after to NYC. In 1916 he moved to Santa Barbara (Cal.) where he died on August 26, 1926."
