Abraham Francen, the Scholar (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white sketch of two men. The top portion depicts a man with light-colored hair sitting at a desk with papers on it and his right elbow resting on the edge. The man wears a dark-colored suit and sits on a chair. Open window with rounded top on the left shows trees outdoors, on the right edge is a window with a curtain. The bottom image shows a man in a 3/4 view sitting on a chair looking down with his hands on papers on a desk. He sits at the bottom of a staircase. The man wears a light-colored outfit and a hat. There is a window with one long side on the right edge of the image.