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"Sketchbook bound in paper inscribed on the front cover 'Jo: Wright/Book of Sketches/Feby 1774' and 'XII' (upside down), containing 46 leaves drawn on the recto or on both sides, with studies after the antique made in the Capitoline Museum and elsewhere (such as the French Academy in Rome), studies of figures chiefly observed in the streets of Rome, and studies of landscape, sky, details of buildings and other subjects; also 3 blank leaves; subjects include boys sleeping on benches or steps, a baby (possibly Wright's daughter Romana), crumbling stonework (probably in the Colosseum), a villa in the country, an archway, a tower among trees, a sandy bank. 1774 Most sketches in graphite, or pen and brown ink over graphite; others in brush and grey ink over graphite, black chalk, pen and grey ink over graphite, pen and brown ink with grey wash over graphite."