Sketch 16, "BASS-FISHING. NEWPORT ROCKS"

pencil/ink wash sketch

Pencil and ink wash sketch on page from disassembled sketchbook, 1986.122.1-29, by Milton J. Burns (1853-1933); sketch 16, "BASS-FISHING. NEWPORT ROCKS"; man on rocks casting a long line; embossed by donor lower right in MJB signature "Burns" (embosser originally owned by Peter Falk). See limited edition "Milton J. Burns, 1854-1933, Fishing, Twenty-Five Wash Drawings from His Sketch Book", published by Sanford & Patricia Smith Galleries, Ltd., NY, 1984.