1638
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)
Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999
Brown ink and gray wash over black chalk, with later additions of dark gray wash and white and yellow opaque watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on faded blue (?) paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black and red chalk on oatmeal (formerly blue) paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutch