Pastel and charcoal drawing of a pair of hooded mergansers, both in profile and facing right: above, a male, and below, a female. Male merganser is portrayed standing on one foot on a roughly sketched log.
India ink and charcoal drawing of a pair of greater yellowlegs, both in profile and facing left. Bird on right has wings outstretched. Reverse of sheet has pencil sketch of ducks in flight.
India ink and charcoal drawing of a pair of greater yellowlegs, both in profile and facing left. Bird on right has wings outstretched. Reverse of sheet has pencil sketch of ducks in flight.
Charcoal drawing of a farm in winter, done by a very young Francis Lee Jaques. A snowy foreground, with some dried flowers or stalks of grasses, opens onto fences, two hayricks (one with a roof and a ladder leaning against it), and a farmhouse slightly further in the distance. Snowy fields, rows of trees, and the roof and smoking chimney of anot...