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Henry Stone ( -1653), Sketchbook of landscape and figure studies, and drawings after Italian masters and the Antique made during Italian sojourn, c.1638-42 (22 leaves). Insc: (on spine): Hy. Stone's Drawings and (on flyleaf) J. Paine Junr: Archt 75 and (p.33) This book of drawings or Sketches was/done by Hen. Stone the Painter who/dyd 1653 and was buried in St Martins church in the/Fields/ was born in . . .London - went over to/Paris to study Art of Painting - his brother Nic Stone Jnr/came there to him and they both together went to/Italy to study 1638 at Florence in June/October arrived at Rome - Naples Venice Florence/returned London 1642. Marbled boards, leather spine (310 x 215)
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Vol 92/21
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Henry Stone ( -1653), Sketchbook of landscape and figure studies, and drawings after Italian masters and the Antique made during Italian sojourn, c.1638-42 (22 leaves). Insc: (on spine): Hy. Stone's Drawings and (on flyleaf) J. Paine Junr: Archt 75 and (p.33) This book of drawings or Sketches was/done by Hen. Stone the Painter who/dyd 1653 and was buried in St Martins church in the/Fields/ was born in . . .London - went over to/Paris to study Art of Painting - his brother Nic Stone Jnr/came there to him and they both together went to/Italy to study 1638 at Florence in June/October arrived at Rome - Naples Venice Florence/returned London 1642. Marbled boards, leather spine (310 x 215)
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SM Vol 92, Henry Stone sketchbook, was lent for exhibition in ‘The Paston Treasure’ to the Yale Center for British Art (15/2/18-27/5/18) and Norwich Castle Museum (23/6/18-23/9/18). The volume was open at folio 21. The following text is taken from the Yale exhibition catalogue:
151. Henry Stone (English, 1616-1653)
Sketchbook of landscape and figure studies, and drawings after Italian masters and the Antique made during his Italian sojourn, 1638-42.
Paper bound in marble boards with leather spine; 17 x 12 ¼ in. (43.2 x 31.1 cm), open
By courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Soane sketchbook, vol. 92
Prov: Henry Stone (d.1653), possibly by descent to his brother John Stone, last surviving relative of the Stones; later acquired by George Virtue (1684-1756), who inscribed it; acquired by the sculptor James Paine Junior (1745-1829), c.1755; acquired by Sir John Soane (1753-1837).
This sketchbook, contains twenty-two leaves, was compiled between 1638 and 1642, when Henry Stone was aged twenty-two to twenty-six. The earliest drawings were made while Stone and his brother Nicholas stone the Younger (1618-1647) were serving as William Paston’s guides in Florence. Others were made in Rome, where Paston re-joined the Stone brothers following his six-month sojourn to Egypt and Jerusalem in 1639. Nicholas Stone the Younger’s contemporary sketchbook, which is largely architectural in nature, also survives (see cat.152). The pages of Henry’s sketchbook are filled with drawings in brown ink and also graphite; these include numerous drawings made after antique sculpture in Florence and Rome; and what seem to be drawings made after paintings, including several pastorals reminiscent of the works of Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665), who was then living on and off in Rome, including fol. 25 [incorrect – they mean fol. 21], which takes as its subject the Massacre of the Innocents.
Stone’s drawings also provide what appear to be glimpses of rooms in the palaces that he visited, though these also have the sense of drawings for theatrical scenery. There are also what appear to be drawing made from live models, or possibly again from figures in paintings. Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, there are also sketches that appear to have been made en plein air, possibly recording the progress of Paston’s entourage, one of them among the ruins of the Roman Forum.
Nathan Flis
151. Henry Stone (English, 1616-1653)
Sketchbook of landscape and figure studies, and drawings after Italian masters and the Antique made during his Italian sojourn, 1638-42.
Paper bound in marble boards with leather spine; 17 x 12 ¼ in. (43.2 x 31.1 cm), open
By courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Soane sketchbook, vol. 92
Prov: Henry Stone (d.1653), possibly by descent to his brother John Stone, last surviving relative of the Stones; later acquired by George Virtue (1684-1756), who inscribed it; acquired by the sculptor James Paine Junior (1745-1829), c.1755; acquired by Sir John Soane (1753-1837).
This sketchbook, contains twenty-two leaves, was compiled between 1638 and 1642, when Henry Stone was aged twenty-two to twenty-six. The earliest drawings were made while Stone and his brother Nicholas stone the Younger (1618-1647) were serving as William Paston’s guides in Florence. Others were made in Rome, where Paston re-joined the Stone brothers following his six-month sojourn to Egypt and Jerusalem in 1639. Nicholas Stone the Younger’s contemporary sketchbook, which is largely architectural in nature, also survives (see cat.152). The pages of Henry’s sketchbook are filled with drawings in brown ink and also graphite; these include numerous drawings made after antique sculpture in Florence and Rome; and what seem to be drawings made after paintings, including several pastorals reminiscent of the works of Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665), who was then living on and off in Rome, including fol. 25 [incorrect – they mean fol. 21], which takes as its subject the Massacre of the Innocents.
Stone’s drawings also provide what appear to be glimpses of rooms in the palaces that he visited, though these also have the sense of drawings for theatrical scenery. There are also what appear to be drawing made from live models, or possibly again from figures in paintings. Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, there are also sketches that appear to have been made en plein air, possibly recording the progress of Paston’s entourage, one of them among the ruins of the Roman Forum.
Nathan Flis
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Drawing
Exhibition history
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, Yale Center for British Art, 15 February - 27 May 2018; The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rareties of the Known World, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 23 June - 23 September 2018
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