St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg's sketchbook page captures a seaside moment with characteristic Victorian observational detail. The sheet combines finished studies—a moored fishing boat rendered in ink wash, a resting figure in muted watercolor—with rapid pencil notations of figures below. Kellogg's approach reflects the 19th-century practice of working from nature and memory, combining marine subjects with human studies. Such sketchbooks served as repositories for compositional ideas and technical practice, documenting the artist's daily engagement with landscape and figure drawing during his travels.