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Definition of Sketchbooks
1. sketchbook [n] - See also: sketchbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sketchbooks
Literary usage of Sketchbooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"... Disposition— Love of Nature—Relations with the Opposite Sex— Literary Tastes—His
Letters—Manner of Composing —The sketchbooks—Origin of His Deafness. ..."
2. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"The attitude towards his surroundings evidenced by his sketchbooks is the same
as that permeating everything he ever built, namely an unremitting capacity ..."
3. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"(a) The sketchbooks of Renaissance architects, who studied the remains of ...
(b) The sketchbooks in which the archaeological and scientific interest is ..."
4. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1896)
"It has been my privilege to consult the sketchbooks, notebooks, and journals that
... We reproduce from the sketchbooks some few drawings here and there. ..."
5. Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers by Martha Horn, Mary Ellen Giacobbe (2007)
"After the children get their sketchbooks and pencils, they spread out on the ...
Some sat on the floor with sketchbooks in their laps, and others were on ..."
6. John La Farge, Artist and Writer by Cecilia Waern (1896)
"It has been my privilege to consult the sketchbooks, notebooks, and journals that
... We reproduce from the sketchbooks some few drawings here and there. ..."
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