Standing Merganser Looking Backward; verso: Soaring Bird

Red chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face

Red chalk and red-chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face

Parchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves.

Brown wash and graphite on pale gray modern laid paper

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Red chalk counterproof on cream laid paper

Black ink, gray wash and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper

Graphite on cream antique laid paper

Brown ink, brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with cream antique laid paper border adhered to face