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The piece is a sensitively framed grisaille drawing on thin, blue–grey laid paper, mounted within a broad, bevel‐cut window-mount and housed in a distressed, ebonised cassetta frame with parcel-gilt sight and back bevel (fig., ). The visible sheet measures approximately 33 25.8 cm ( 11! !8 in.); the outer frame is about 48 39 cm ( 19!
The drawing is presented in a soft-wood cassetta frame whose outer members are ebonised and deliberately distressed to reveal warm red–brown bole and isolated areas of gilt beneath. A narrow, water-gilt slip (approx.\ 9 mm) forms the sight edge, while the inner back-bevel is likewise parcel-gilt, creating a double line of gold that emphasises the mount aperture. Moulding profile (sight, ,wall) is: burnished ogee,→,flat frieze,→,stepped back-bevel; overall depth c.,35 mm.
The drawing has recently undergone a light, paper-conservation treatment aimed at reinvigorating legibility while respecting the fragility of the original media. Comparison of pre-treatment and post-treatment photographs (fig., ) shows that the intervention focused on reducing general surface discolouration, flattening a horizontal crease, and restoring the cool bluish tone characteristic of historic blue paper. 0.48 \small (a),Before treatment: yellowed surface, overall grey–brown veil, visible transverse crease.
Install UV-filter glazing (over 97 \ drawing will be displayed for more than eight weeks at a time. Light levels below 50 lux and RH 45–55 \ both paper and white body-colour. Five-year check of hinge tension and any recurring planar distortions; otherwise no further treatment is foreseen in the medium term.
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