1886
Album of 17 pages of tan wove paper. Faded blue wove paper covers, attached with brads. Drawings are in various media, including watercolor, ink, and graphite. Many are inscribed with dates from January, February, March, May 1886.
cover: 26 x 33.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
Watercolor over graphite
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite with metallic gold detail on off-white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchGray ink and graphite, squared in white chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite traced with stylus on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on tracing paper; verso: traces of brown oil paint above and below tiger and along top of his back
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and accidental traces of red chalk on thin buff wove paper.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on thin buff wove tracing paper
19th centuryFrench