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- James Boswell 1906–1971
- Title
- Sketchbook with ‘1945’ inside front cover and ‘1945 and 1949’ on label on front of cover
- Date
- 1945–9
- Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Ruth Boswell, the artist's widow in 1982
- Reference
- TGA 8224/20
Description
Ink, crayon, graphite and watercolour on paper, 227 × 177 mm
Page 1, man and woman sheltering in the Underground, inscribed 'Shelter in Tube 45'
Page 2, standing man shouting at a woman seated at the tea table
Page 3, performers, including Harlequin and a half dressed woman, on a stage
Page 4, three women in a dressing room
Page 5, caricature of a weight lifter and another performer
Page 6, top, a bull and a lion about to fight
Page 6, bottom, reclining woman in Arab dress
Page 7, circus tent, caravans and circus performers including a lion-tamer
Page 8, interior of a brothel
Page 9, male wearing a mask with a long nose and two female performers on a stage
Page 10, four performers on a stage, three men in masks and a woman singing
Page 11, woman walking down a street with houses on both sides
Page 12, seated dwarf playing a stringed instrument
Page 13, harlequin and Columbine
Page 14, three performers, one of them a weight lifter
Page 15, young dancer holding the hand of a dwarf and reading a letter
Page 16, street with houses and figures
Page 17, townscape with a car in a square and a winding street going up hill
Page 18, man and woman talking in a street
Page 19, street scene with postman emptying the post box
Page 20, study of the front of a two storey house, with notes on colours, materials and measurements
Page 21, street at night with a lorry and several figures
Page 22, night street scene with several women
Page 23, woman viewed from a high vantage point with the street beneath her
Page 24, harlequin in a street
Page 25, street viewed from a high vantage point
Page 26, townscape viewed from a high vantage point
Page 27, bull with a ring through his nose
Page 28, interior scene with figures standing by a counter
Page 29, study of houses in a street by night
Page 30, small studies of figures and buildings
Page 31, four standing female nudes and a male dwarf
Page 32, railway station with figures on the platform
Page 33, a street at night with dark buildings
Page 34, tall detached house
Page 35, man sitting cross-legged reading a book
Page 36, two studies of a girl wearing a hair-band and looking down
Page 37, profile of a man's head
Page 38, group of female nudes
Page 39, two figures entering a pub, inscribed ' The Bedford Arms Camden Town'
Pages 40-48, blank