Italian Sketchbook: Notes (page 260)

Maurice Prendergast

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a yellowed piece of paper with handwritten notes. The handwriting is in cursive and appears to be in two different colors, one brown and one blue. The top section of the page contains several lines of writing in brown ink. The first line reads "Spreewald near Berlin". The next line says "Take Saturday train from Berlin to Spreewald. Stay at Burg." The third line says "return by freight of the railroad." Below that are two lines of writing in blue ink. The first line reads "Horse Shoe Inn". The second line says "71 Oxford St". The third line says "Tottenham Court Rd". The fourth line says "London". At the bottom of the page, there is a single line of writing in brown ink that reads "Spreewald". The background of the image is the yellowed paper itself, which has some darker spots and discoloration throughout.