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
Watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised in design areas and compass-point hole at center, attached to mount with two framing lines in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and red wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with two framing lines in gray ink; verso: incised, with oil residue
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on brown prepared paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash, incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite and red chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted at four corners
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutch