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Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper: "No. 4 (4 inscribed in brown ink) The Roman Doric or Italian. of Palladio" (of Palladio inscribed in graphite strengthened in pen and brown ink); inscribed on verso: in pen and black ink, upper center: "A. G. Humfrey Jones from Lucy E. Mark (49 Oxford Terrace London) daughter of Edward W. Mark | H.B.M. Consul at Marseilles, who drew this series of eight studies in Architecture."; inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Speimen of the modified Roman or Italian of Palladio. | The only pure ancient example is in the theater of Marceilus at Rome."; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Study by Edward Walhouse Mark | H.B.M. Consul at Marseilles - 19th century | Lucy E Mark, his daughter"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "London given to A. Geraldine Humphrey Jones by Lucy Mark | of 40 Oxford Terrace."