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sight: 27.5 x 30.5 cm (10 13/16 x 12 in.)
Austin Gunnison, Cincinnati, Ohio. Private Collector, California. [Christie's, Paris, March 18, 2004, part of lot 110], sold; to William W. Robinson, Newton, Massachusetts, 2004, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024.
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, adhered on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed, black, and white chalk on toned cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over counterproof (?) on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th 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 centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrench