Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus

Graphite on tracing paper

Black chalk, black crayon, white chalk, brown and blue-green watercolor and white gouache on brown laid paper

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Brown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper

Graphite on cream wove paper

Charcoal and black crayon with stumping, scratchwork and lifting on buff wove paper

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white paper

Transparent watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper

Graphite

Graphite 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

Gray ink and graphite, squared in white chalk