"En Bresse Ain"

Album of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.

Black crayon on cream wove paper

Graphite on off-white laid paper

Graphite on cream modern laid paper

Graphite on cream wove paper, darkened

Brown ink over graphite on heavy tan wove paper

Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

Black ink with touches of graphite over traces of red chalk, traced with a stylus, on tan wove paper, mounted on cream wove paper

Colored pencil, graphite and black ink on off-white wove paper

Black crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper

Black crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon

Graphite on cream modern laid paper