The drawing pasted in the bottom right-hand corner is one of only a few in the two albums to have been drawn in iron-gall ink. This kind of ink consists of a tanning agent (oak galls or “oak apples”) and iron sulphate (vitriol) mixed with binder (gum arabic) and wine or water. Unlike the papers marked with chalk, this drawing medium has transferred very visibly to the verso of leaf 17, which, in the album’s closed state, lay pressed against it for many years.
Album 1
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Album 1, Leaf 18
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