Marble Quarry

Sketchbook

Page [21] from Miscellaneous Scraps Notebook (SKB 77)

Date1973

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 73(35)

Date Order NumberAG 73.30

Mediacrayon, watercolour wash

Paperblotting paper

Dimensionspaper: 133 x 169 mm

Signature

ballpoint pen l.l. Moore, undated

Inscriptionpencil on book page Marble Quarry-/put in ladders?/see photos of Altisimo; l.r. page 41 (not in artist's hand)

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977

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Mounted on Miscellaneous Scraps Notebook p.[21]. The notebook page is inscribed in pencil lower centre Marble Quarry – ((Altissimo) erased)/put in ladders?/see photos of Altissimo. Moore often visited the marble quarries of Monte Altissimo which were near his home in Forte dei Marmi.