1893
35.5 x 20 cm (14 x 7 7/8 in.)
Aubrey Beardsley (London), gift; to Aymer Vallance. James Tregaskis (London). Desmond Coke (London) by 1919. Sotheby's (New York, Arcade sale, January 11-12, 1999, lot 578), sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, 1999, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004. Note: A letter formerly attached to the back of the frame from R.A. Walker (Georges Derry) presumably to Desmond Coke notes this drawing had recently belonged to James Tregaskis, the bookseller.
Transparent and opaque watercolor on paper
19th centuryBritishBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryBritishBlack and white chalk on buff wove paper
19th centuryBritishWatercolor, black ink, and white gouache on cream wove paper
19th centuryBritishGraphite on heavy cream wove paper
19th centuryBritishWatercolor, black ink, graphite, and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryBritishBlack, white, and red chalk and graphite(?) on brown wove paper, darkened
19th centuryBritishMetalpoint on prepared paper
19th centuryBritishWatercolor and gouache on blue wove paper
19th centuryBritishBrown ink over graphite
19th centuryBritishCharcoal and scratchwork on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryBritish