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

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1895–97 · 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 · Robert Lehman Collection

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.

Artist

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975