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
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBound 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 ink and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, black ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, guidelines in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on oiled, thin wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk and graphite on prepared blue paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench