Design for a Ceiling Decoration: Corner Cartouche with Groteschi

Black ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

Marble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper

Graphite, red chalk and touches of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Black chalk and white gouache on buff wove paper, laid down to board(?). Surrounding paper frame obscures edges.

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Graphite on off-white antique laid paper

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Black ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, pricked for transfer around oval framing lines in black ink

Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Black ink with brown and red chalk wash over traces of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Graphite on parchment laid down to white laid paper.