"Rosa Bonheur, the accomplished painter of animals, made this sketchbook in 1847 to record life in rural France. It includes drawings she made in the fields during harvest time, farm tools, and local plants.
The sketchbook contains studies of plants, peasants, farm tools, decorative objects, landscapes and human figures and is extensively annotated.
The sketchbook belonged to Raymond Bonheur, the father of Rosa Bonheur, and also contains sketches and notes from him.”