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.
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, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk and graphite on blue antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper mounted on parchment page
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on blue antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, brown ink, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchGray wash and brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, framing lines in dark brown ink
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 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 centuryDutch