Italian Landscape

Black and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Vernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Brown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper.

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

Black ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper

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

Black chalk, stumped, with touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper toned to light tan, framing lines in black ink

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

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink

Parchment 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.