18th century
28.3 x 35.9 cm (11 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Marian H. Phinney, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962, inv. no. 1962.21
Bound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite and white gouache on cream laid paper, framing line in brownish black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and gray wash over black chalk on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with touches of white gouache, and guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench