1950
28.9 x 22.1 cm (11 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton, New York, sold; to Frederic Ossorio, Boulder, Colorado, 1964, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.
Watercolor over graphite on illustration board
20th centuryAmericanAlbum of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.
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20th centuryGermanMultiple drawing media, including graphite, pastel, chalk, felt-tip marker, metallic crayon (?), ball point ink, colored pencil, colored crayon; collage including tracing paper, yellow lined paper, graph paper, paper with white ground, tan paper, linen tape
20th centuryAmericanSpruce green crayon on paper
20th centuryGermanBlack ink on tan wove paper
20th centuryAmericanBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBlack ink on off-white wove paper
20th centuryAmericanBlack crayon and ink on paper
20th centuryAmericanBlack ink on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryBritishRed and black marker on paper
21st centuryGerman