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
Brown ink over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink over brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, transparent watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor, black ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite at the upper left
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on white antique laid paper, prepared with red chalk wash, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch