18th century
actual: 24.8 x 40.3 cm (9 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)
Black chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchTracings, mostly in graphite, occasionally supplemented with gray wash, on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite over brown printing ink on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: gray and brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink over graphite on discolored white paper
18th 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 centuryFrench