Hesiod and the Muse

Red chalk and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, adhered to off-white wove paper

Graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper

Graphite and black, red and green ink on brown wove paper

Brown ink on white wove paper

Graphite with touches of black chalk on tan wove paper

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Watercolor, gouache, and lead-white, with some scratching, on white wove paper

Gouache on wove paper

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

Brown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag 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

Black chalk, brown and gray wash, white gouache, and traces of graphite on cream wove paper