17th century
three sheets joined horizontally; silhouetted and mounted to secondary support
original sheet: 126.4 × 59.5 cm (49 3/4 × 23 7/16 in.) mount: 128.1 × 68.4 cm (50 7/16 × 26 15/16 in.) frame: 149.2 × 87.6 cm (58 3/4 × 34 1/2 in.)
Denman W. Ross, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1920
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk underdrawing on cream antique laid paper
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17th-18th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, drum-mounted to wove decorated mount
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink, gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on dark brown prepared antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown and gray wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryItalian