Sketchbook No. 14: Studies for "The Coronation of Napoleon I"

Black and white chalk drawing mounted within a book on Prud'hon

black ink, colored washes, colored chalks, white gouache on tan wove paper (no watermark)

Graphite, squared, on white wove paper

Black ink, gray wash, and graphite on off-white wove paper

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

Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper

Black crayon on off-white wove paper

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

Black crayon on darkened tracing paper

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

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