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
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light brown wash.
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red chalk and traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper; framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with touches of graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper pasted down on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on card and attached to mount
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and black ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutch