Drawing Sheet 7 A-B

Support

Dimensions:

22.5 x 34.5 cm (approx., length of right side is filled)

Cut edge:

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Paper type:

Ivory wove paper, discolored to tan

Pinholes:

ULC, LLC, lower center, and possibly in the lower-left center (restoration fills in upper and lower right corners)

    Additional notes:

Media is visible within the pinholes

Sewing holes:

Vertically through center 7.0cm from top edge

Edges overlapping adj. sheet:

Top edge

Edges extending below adj. sheet:

Right side of bottom edge (there was a slight gap between 7A and 8A)

Edges abutting adj. sheet:

Possibly right edge, though difficult to assess as the loss along this side was formerly restored

Media

Colored pencil:

Black pencil is used to define the overall composition; applied prior to laying down color media

Purple-blue pencil is used in clothes of the (exploding clown ?) figure

Orange-red pencil is used to color the large (exploding clown ?) figure’s mouth, nose and other facial features; and the figure’s hair at the lower left

Orange-red pencil/conté crayon was used to highlight around a figure’s eyes at the left bottom edge and in another figure’s hair in the LRC; this media is visible below in 8A-B as well

Orange-red pencil/conté crayon (similar?) was used to highlight around a figure’s eyes at the left bottom edge and in another figure’s hair in the LRC over colored pencil; this media is visible below in 8A-B as well (also 4A, 4B?)

Green pencil is used in the serpents body at the far right, in the vertical crossed columns in the background in the upper left area; and in the faces in the lower left side

Blue-green pencil is used in the figure’s face in the LLC and in the (exploding) figure’s face

Bright blue pencil applied over the figure’s legs in the ULC, and over the former patch covering the red shoes

Possibly yellow pencil in the faces and hats

Charcoal/chalk:

Possibly in the top hats

Pastel:

Traces of yellow and black pastel at the right side, possibly extending from the former restoration fill

Watercolor:

Bright red gouache (vermilion) was applied to the figure’s shoes at the center left

Possibly yellow watercolor/wash in the lower parts of the top hats, below the blue passages and in the hair of the top right (exploding) figure; yellow appears similar to that used extensively below in 8A

Possibly red watercolor in lower right corner in figure’s face

Scratching:

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Additional media notes:

Some media appears abraded or rubbed away in the figure’s top hat in the lower left area

**Important to note that media was applied later after the artist’s patch was applied, so the artist is reworking later (at the time the sky is reworked with pastel?)

**Orange-red pencil/crayon is applied over all other media.

Composition

Drawing to sheet edges:

All visible edges (top left and right side were formerly restored); some color pencil is absent along

Drawing into adjacent sheet:

Difficult to assess completely due to extensive areas of edge loss; some image lines continue at the bottom edge into 8A-B,

Compositional changes/additions:

The large top hat at the bottom center may have been added over the two background figures, as some lines delineating their bodies are visible

The toothed mouth/subject at the upper left edge appears to be drawn over existing linear shading

Artist’s patches:

In the upper left area, two small patches were used to cover genitalia (?) and an officer’s (?) bright red shoes

Former restoration:

Along the left top edge and right side

Drawing on verso:

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Additional observations:

Analysis

Technique

Area/location

Results/observations

Photo microscopy:

Ultra-violet radiation:

Red shoes

Faint dull orange fluorescence—possibly madder?

Infrared radiation:

Words in top hats

Raman Spectroscopy:

X-Ray diffraction:

Red watercolor in shoes

Vermilion

Orange-red pencils/crayons