Three sketches on a single sheet, probably intended to serves as illustrations for an unidentified publication; with two illustrations on one side and a single illustration occupying half of the verso.
Title devised by cataloger.
Drawings illustrate various scenes from what appears to a work of fiction with an eighteenth-century setting; the first two designs are executed horizontally with the bottoms of both designs running along the narrow edges of the sheet, with the top border of both drawings situated in the center of the sheet; the first drawing (a) show an interior where four women, two of them nuns, are standing and seated around a table on which sits an jewel box or casket, as a man stands regarding them with his hand to his chin at right; second drawing (b) shows a group six people standing in front of a high, turreted wall, including the figures of a man and woman in the foreground, the woman apparently in the act of angrily snatching away a large handkerchief from the man's face (?); drawing on verso (c) shows a group of guards or soldiers restraining a prisoner at right in the company of a man in aristocratic dress who stands at left with one arm extended in the act of offering the prisoner something in his hand.
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.