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
Black chalk, black ink, and gray wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted at four corners to beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOffset in brown wash on parchment (from the drawing on folio 22 verso); verso: graphite, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, transparent watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; double framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and black chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and colored wash on 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 centuryDutchBrown ink
17th centuryDutch