18th century
33.7 x 24.9 cm (13 1/4 x 9 13/16 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.
Black chalk, black ink, brown wash, white gouache, watercolor, and traces of graphite on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk 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 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 centuryFrenchBlack ink brown, ink, gray and brown wash on paper
18th centuryFrench?Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink and graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on card and off-white paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on card
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
18th-19th centuryFrench