18th century
9 x 17.6 cm (3 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper (recto and verso)
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on beige antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof reworked with brown chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in black chalk (recto and verso)
17th-18th centuryFrenchParchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves.
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on pale gray modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench