c. 1634-1638
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, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white opaque watercolor, and scratchwork on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
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 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 and blue-gray wash, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and black wash on blue antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutch