18th century
A wall fountain decorated with two dolphins with interlaced tails.
14.7 x 10.7 cm (5 13/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Maurice de Fleury. Richard Owen, Paris, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Black ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown and gray-brown wash on cream modern laid paper; verso: black chalk and black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache on lightly faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, laid down to cardboard
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrench