Le Retardataire

Black ink, brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black ink

Graphite and white chalk on buff wove paper

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

Graphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter

Brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper

20 drawings of antique capitals, ceiling coffers, cornices, basins, columns, acroterion, and decorative reliefs

Black ink, gray wash, white gouache, red ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Graphite on tan modern laid paper

Black and gray wash over black chalk on off-white modern laid paper

Black ink and white gouache on blue laid paper prepared with brown wash, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream card

Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream wove paper