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 brown wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on two sheets of antique laid ledger paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, with an original framing line in brown ink and a later partial framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on buff antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk on the sheet of an account book, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk [possibly a counterproof?] on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch