Blank Verso of Sheet 142 (Crossbow Showing Through)
Recorded as blank and invisible before restoration
The e-Leo transcription records this verso as blank and invisible before restoration. The image on the page is the recto's bench-crossbow study seen in reverse through the thin paper, with the long stock and its rack-and-lever spanning gear faintly legible. Nothing is drawn on this side of the sheet.
On this page
Recto crossbow visible through the leaf
Through the blank paper the recto's bench crossbow shows in mirror image: the long horizontal stock and, below it, the toothed rack and foot-lever of the spanning mechanism. The drawing belongs to the recto, not to this side.