A volume containing 145 pattern drawings for tattoos, including images of men, women, serpents, dragons, mottoes, birds, butterflies, fish, and patriotic figures for the United States and Great Britain, circa 1915. Four of the drawings are on translucent paper that is mounted in the volume. The majority of the drawings are ink line drawings, while two drawings are colored with crayon and depict dragons, one in a flight with an eagle. The author of the volume may be C. B. Davis, a tattoo artist based in London, Great Britain.
Description:
Label pasted on interior of back cover, "Sketch Book, Series 26, Containing 30 leaves of Whatman's Drawing Paper.", Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc., on the Jonathan O. Bulkley Fund, 2007., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Davis, C. B.
Subject (Topic):
Animals in art, Body art--Pictorial works, Emblems, Patriotism in art, Tattooing--Pictorial works, and Women in art
