18th century
27.2 × 19.4 cm (10 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Possibly Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniari, Venice. Possibly Edward Cheney, Shropshire, by descent; to Alfred Capel-Cure, Essex, sold [through Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1885, part of lot 1024]. Possibly [B.T. Batsford, London], sold [through Christie's, London, July 14, 1914, part of lot 49]; to [E. Parsons and Sons, London]. [Steinlitz, Paris], sold; to [Hill-Stone, New York, 2002], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 2011, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
Watercolor, with accents of gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBlack ink and graphite, framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on dark brown prepared antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on gray prepared wove paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBrown and gray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBrown ink and gray wash on buff antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryItalian