Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, No. 3 (recto); Study for a scene with ten imaginary creatures (verso)

Inscription: Signed in pen and black ink and brush and watercolor at lower right of recto, in a rectangular banner with decoration: "Dion Calthrop 1899"
Inscribed in graphite at right margin of recto: "Show line"
Inscribed in graphite at lower right of recto: "16 1/2 x 14"
Inscribed in blue crayon at left margin of verso: "10509"
Inscribed in blue crayon at right margin of verso: "[arrow] 8 1/2" [arrow]"
Inscribed in graphite at bottom center of verso (in twentieth-century hand): "101/6 Oct. 6"
Inscribed in graphite at lower right of verso (in twentieth-century hand): "July 7 461/12" (crossed out)
Inscribed in pen and black ink at upper left of verso (in the artist's hand): "The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit/ No. III/ Into whereto the remarkable residence of lightless lights/ The place where candles go when they go [,] onto he went/ "I know" he said bowing to the vision "in such an enlightened/ audience, matchless for its wit, I shall find some fitting/ answer to this," he proposed his riddle. Silence, in/ the twinkling of an instant as the answer simultaneously/ (firming them main) [unclear] rose to their lips, they brust forth into the light/ And the vision and his answer were lost. D.C.C."

Marking: Embossed at upper left of verso: "Bristol Board Winsor & Newton Ltd."
Stamped lightly in purple ink at lower right of verso: "Grain_____/Size____/With Name____/When Wanted____/Order Number____"

Vendor: Christopher Gibbs (British)