17th century
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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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, incised, on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk; verso: blackened with black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on Asian paper; later additions in gray wash and scratchwork, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and ink on antique laid paper, framing line in gold; mount: graphite, brown wash, and gold
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink at left and right
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray wash on parchment, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch