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Profile Head of a Young Man

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper mounted at the edges to decorated mount

Study for an Infant Christ; verso: Half-Length Figure of a Man

Raphael, 16th century

Black chalk and brown ink on beige antique laid paper; verso: red chalk

Head of a Child Turned Three-Quarters Left

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, 16th century

Black and white chalk on brown antique laid paper

Decorative Design

Perino del Vaga, c. 1530

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Unidentified Artist, late 16th century

Nude Caryatids

Red chalk over black chalk on white antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian, Tuscan, Sienese

Various Sketches of Nude Figures

Raffaele da Montelupo, 16th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Bathing Nymphs Surprised by Satyrs

Lorenzo Sabatini, 15th-16th century

Brown ink, sanguine washes and white gouache on sanguine prepared antique laid paper

Saint James the Less (Hercules or a Prophet)

Baccio Bandinelli, 16th century

Brown ink over graphite (?) on off-white antique laid paper

Design for a Series of Frescoes to Decorate the Palazzo Vecchio

Giorgio Vasari, 15th-16th century

Brown ink with brown wash on cream antique laid paper

Design for a Series of Frescoes to Decorate the Palazzo Vecchio

Giorgio Vasari, 15th-16th century

Brown ink with brown wash on cream antique laid paper

Pope Presenting a Scepter to a Ruler

Unidentified Artist, 16th century

Brown and black inks and brown wash, over red chalk on tan antique laid paper

Seated Male Nude

Brown ink, black chalk, brown wash and white gouache on off-white antique laid paper, toned overall with a pale brown wash

Head of a Man; verso: Clasped Hands

Baccio Bandinelli, 16th century

Black chalk on blue gray antique laid paper

Reclining Nude; verso: Drapery study

Red chalk with traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall

A Standing Nude Youth Facing Inward

Marcantonio Raimondi, 15th-16th century

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Seated Woman

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper

Madonna and Child appearing to a Woman in Bed and a Woman Kneeling

Perino del Vaga, 16th century

Brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache on cream antique laid paper stumped overall with black chalk, pricked in part with probable later re-strengthening of highlights in white gouache

Unidentified Artist, 16th century

Design for a Salt Cellar

Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk and touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Court Lady Walking in Profile to the Right

Parmigianino, 16th century

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on white card

The Kneeling Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, 16th century

Red chalk on buff antique laid paper, slightly retouched with different red chalk; pricked for transfer