1829
actual: 18 x 28.5 cm (7 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Abigail Adams Homans, bequest; to her children George C. Homans, Mrs. Henry L. Mason, and Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, c. 1974, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1975
Watercolor on tracing paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBrown wash and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on brown wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on darkened tracing paper, mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchColored pencil, graphite and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPastel on pressed paper board
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal and white gouache on tan wove paper, darkened.
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on beige laid paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, red chalk, gray wash, and white gouache over black chalk, on blue antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite 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
19th centuryFrench