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

Red chalk on oiled antique laid paper

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

Graphite on wove oatmeal paper; verso: graphite

Graphite on white wove paper

Graphite, prepared black chalk, white chalk, and touches of blue-green pastel on pink wove paper, squared in prepared black chalk

Black chalk

Brown wash over graphite on white wove paper

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

Charcoal and white chalk on buff paper

Black chalk on tan wove paper

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

Graphite and gray wash on off-white modern laid paper.