16th century
17.4 x 15.7 cm (6 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
N.F. Haym (Lugt 1973a). Unidentified collecgor (Lugt 2914a). 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
Oil on varnished brown antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, discolored brown, laid down overall to antique laid decorative mount
16th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with brown wash, laid down overall to thick cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
15th-16th centuryItalianRed chalk on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash and traces of red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream antique laid decorative mount
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, with an accidental touch of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper laid down to twentieth-century white wove paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on four pieces of blue antique laid paper, laid down to thick cream antique laid paper (the mount of the collector John Skippe)
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalian