c. 1785
irregular: 45.2 x 29.1 cm (17 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, Philadelphia; sale, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1994, lot 65, sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario (on long-term loan to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994-2000), sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, inv. no. 2000.89
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGouache and watercolor over graphite on off-white Japan paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, traces of graphite, on two joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
18th-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 centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed and annotated in black ink, attached to a sheet of modern wove paper, with old label from Johns Hopkins University attached to right edge.
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on card
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on three joined pieces of off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor and touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk with traces of white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench