c. 1897
11.5 x 16.3 cm (4 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
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
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th 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 centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPastel on cream paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite, with opaque white heightening, on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite
19th centuryFrench