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Pencil; p. 41: Sketch of the head of an angel and a wing. Pencil; p. 45: Sketch of an angel. Pencil; p. 49: offprint from p. 45; p. 53: Sketch of a saint full-length. Pencil; p. 61: Rough sketch (of a goldfish?). Pencil; p. 65: Sketch of a man in military uniform. Pencil; p. 69: Sketch of an angel in profile. On verso: the same angel full face. Pencil; p. 73: Sketch of an angel full face. On verso: the same angel in profile. Pencil; pp. 77, 81, 85, 89 are blank.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Natalia Goncharova","id":"A6456"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"pencil, pen and ink","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Theatre","id":"THES250537"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"none","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"94","shelf":"D","box":"74"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"sketch-book","id":""}],[{"text":"drawing","id":""}],[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"},{"place":{"text":"Russia","id":"x29110"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1913-1925","earliest":"1908-01-01","latest":"1925-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"342","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Open No. Upstand - Depth:343 x Width 515 x Height 160mm\r\nOpen with Upstand - Depth:343 x Width 515 x Height 340mm"},{"dimension":"Length","value":"20","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from Salmina-Haskell, L., <i>Catalogue of Russian Drawings</i>, London: V & A, 1972, pp. 20-21, cat. 62.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"p. 1","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"<i>Collection of Bishop Porphiry at Kyiv (Kiev) Ecclesiastic Academy</i>","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Russian inscription in pencil."},{"content":"p. 13: Explanatory notes in Russian.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"(1) Room of the palace; passage like an entrance-hall; entrance, entry of Irina; chair for Boris and next to it places for two boyars. (2) Throne room. Back wall with windows, passages, throne with two steps, 2 chars lower platform (1 piece), xx place of Irina with embroidery hoops Slanted platforms with benches (1side) entrance for boyars and delegates. \r\n(3) Garden, wicket-gate, porch with gallery, bench, places for spinning wheels, princess, prince, window that opens.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"p. 17: Explanatory notes in Russian.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"(4) Pheodor's room and n6.\r\n(5) and Boris's.\r\n(6) Window, stairs, two chairs, table, window, entrance.\r\n(7) Cathedral: passage to backstage, bench. Entrance to the cathedral and a platform with 3 steps. Turn behind the cathedral where the crowd is walking away.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"p. 21: Draft of a letter in French.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil.\r\nDraft of this letter in  Salmina-Haskell, L., <i>Catalogue of Russian Drawings</i>, London: V & A, 1972, p. 47, Appendix: cat. 62 (P. 21)."},{"content":"p. 25: Draft of a letter in French.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pen and ink.\r\nDraft of this letter in  Salmina-Haskell, L., <i>Catalogue of Russian Drawings</i>, London: V & A, 1972, pp. 47-48, Appendix: cat. 62 (P. 25)."}],"objectHistory":"The sketch-book was used by Goncharova at intervals over a number of years. The major part - pp. 5, 9, 29, 33, 37, 41, 35, 49, 53, 57, 69, and 73 - consists of sketches of saint and angels. These are preliminary designs for the ballet <i>Liturgie</i>, the décor and costumes for which Diaghilev entrusted to Goncharova, who was at the time in Lausanne. In 1915, the ballet was rehearsed, but it was never staged. Pages 13 and 17 are working drawings for <i>mise en scène</i> of Mussorgsky's opera <i>Boris Godunov</i>, produced in Berlin in 1913. Page 61 might be for the New York revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's <i>Sadko</i> in 1916. The letters can be dated approximately 1921, as they contain references to the possibility of reproducing a costume for Karsavina in <i>Le Coq d'or</i> in Valerian Svetlov's monograph <i>Thamar Karsavina</i>, ed. Cyril W. Beaumont (London, 1922), where it appeared facing on page 54. The erratic numbers on the pages show that they were collected together at a later date.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Sketch-book by Natalia Goncharova; ca. 1913-1925.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Salmina-Haskell, L., <i>Catalogue of Russian Drawings</i>, London: V & A, 1972, pp. 20-21, cat. 62."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"saint","id":"AAT150555"},{"text":"throne room","id":"AAT4449"},{"text":"garden","id":"AAT8090"},{"text":"cathedral","id":"AAT7501"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.908-1961"],"accessionNumberNum":"908","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1961,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-20","recordCreationDate":"2009-02-26","availableToBook":false}}