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
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso covered with red chalk
18th centuryFrench?Fabricated red chalk on white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink and brown wash over graphite on cream modern paper, laid down to faded blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, stumped, on brown antique laid paper
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 centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash with watercolour over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPen with black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrench