c. 1760
38.8 x 52.9 cm (15 1/4 x 20 13/16 in.)
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.
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 chalk with touches of white chalk on faded antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchPastel
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
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