Sketchbook: Old Street, Ouchy

George Elbert Burr's sketchbook page captures architectural studies of Ouchy, Switzerland, rendered in precise pen and ink. Rather than narrative sequence, Burr employs the sketchbook as a working document—multiple vantage points and structural details of period buildings occupy the same sheet, each study exploring perspective, fenestration, and street-level composition. This approach typifies late-nineteenth-century practice among illustrators and printmakers who used such pages as visual research. Burr's architectural focus would inform his later etchings and illustrations, where built environments featured prominently. The dense, systematic notation reflects both artistic training and the observational discipline foundational to illustration work in the commercial press.