18th century
29.7 x 19.4 cm (11 11/16 x 7 5/8 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 on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on light brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchColored chalks over black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, brown ink, and brown wash 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 centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk with gray wash on tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed, black, and white chalk, stumping, on light-tan antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrench