'Heads of Midas, Istvastchic and a man in a turban', inscr. 'Midas' and 'Istvastchic', St Petersburg Sketchbook, p. 7, The Hunterian

St Petersburg Sketchbook dates from between 1844 and 1848, the majority of drawings being done in Russia 1844/1845, and some, like the drawing illustrated above, labelled with Russian words.

'Portrait of a young woman; studies of a mermaid; head of a bearded man', inscr. `"Oh 'tis pleasant to float on the Sea -"/ the Mermaid's song from "Oberon".' and `The mermaid'/"This morning/ C.L" ', by C. Lidderdale, St Petersburg Sketchbook, p. 27, The Hunterian

A. O. Koritzkii after Brioullov, 'Napoleon Bonaparte', St Petersburg Sketchbook, p. 23, The Hunterian

Several studies (pp. 13, 27, 37-8) were drawn by Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1831-1895), and one (p. 23) by Whistler's tutor, Alexander Osipovich Koritsky (1818-1866), after a portrait by the history painter Alexandre Pavlovitch Brioullov (1799-1852), professor at the Academie des Beaux Arts.

The sketchbook is catalogued fully in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 7).