Général de Beaumont, Grand Ecuyer to Madame Mère

Album of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.

Black chalk and gray wash on heavy white wove paper; verso: black chalk

Brown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper

Black chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Graphite on cream antique laid paper

Brown wash over graphite on off-white wove paper

Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper

Graphite with white chalk accents on tracing paper, backed

Watercolor and brown ink over black chalk on off-white wove paper

Graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper

Red chalk on tracing paper

Black chalk, graphite, and white chalk on tan wove paper