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 and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on an English (?) mount
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack, gray, brown, green, yellow, and violet transparent watercolor and yellow and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper; verso: reddened for transfer
17th centuryDutch?Brown ink and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, squared in graphite, on faded blue antique laid paper; verso: black and white chalk counterproof with touches of ochre, with squaring transferred from recto
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk , graphite, and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutch