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
Gouache, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray-purple wash on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchOiled charcoal and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor and brown ink with touches of transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, triple framing line in black, gold, and brown
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red chalk, and random marks in black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, yellow, and white chalk, gray wash and charcoal on light tan antique laid paper framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch