Pencil drawing and oil painting on paper depicting a plant and a detail of seeds. The larger drawing, of a red and green plant resembling a bird of paradise, is painted mainly in oils, though a large leaf near its base is completed in pencil. Above, the detail of seeds on a stalk is painted in oils.
Pencil drawing of a shark in profile, with a second detail of shark from below. Extensive pencil notes. Drawing marked as "#2 of 3 drawings". Prepared for the American Museum of Natural History. The species is not named in any of the Jaques shark drawings, but it resembles a Nurse Shark.
Pencil drawing with sixteen studies of a shark: five silhouettes of cross-sections, two drawings of the mouth viewed from the underside of the shark, six drawings of fins and tail viewed in profile, a detail of the shark's eye, a view of the shark's head and torso from above, and a profile view of the shark's head. Drawing marked as "#4 of 3 dra...