Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus (Study for "Tu Marcellus Eris")

Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache over graphite on tan wove paper with ruled lines

Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper

Graphite on cream wove paper

Essence on brown wove paper

Red chalk, brown crayon, and white chalk over graphite on cream paper with blue flecks

Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper

Brown ink with touches of blue watercolor on off-white laid paper

Black chalk with extensive stumping on cream wove paper.

Black chalk on off-white wove paper, laid down to off-white wove paper

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream wove paper

Black ink and graphite on cream wove paper; verso: graphite