c. 1640-1641
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
Black chalk, with a partial framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment; verso: graphite(?)
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], 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 centuryDutchOpaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted at four corners
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in places with gold border, mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and red and green transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and gray and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch