Volume I, folio 1 recto

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Edme Bouchardon
1698–1762

Vade Mecum at Rome, Vol. I

1723–32
Black chalk, with pen and brown ink

Binding: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in (187 x 130 mm)
Leaf: 7 1/8 x 5 in (181 x 127 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1907

2006.16:1
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Mascaron Flanked by Two Dolphins (after Giacomo della Porta [1532/33–1602] and an anonymous sculptor) and Grotesque Winged Mask (after an anonymous, probably seventeenth-century sculptor).
Watermark: Star (top).