Roman Villa

Black and white chalk on brown wove paper

Brown wash on cream wove paper

Black crayon on off-white wove paper

Bound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper

Watercolor on blue paper, faded

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Watercolor

Black, red, and white chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on japanese paper

Brown ink on cream paper, laid down on beige paper

Graphite on buff wove paper

Graphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on brown wove paper; parts of the background have been varnished