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
Brown ink and red wash, over traces of black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper; traces of later restoration in white opaque watercolor; verso: black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk with white opaque watercolor restoration on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, gray and brown wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and oxidized white opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and oxidized white opaque watercolor over graphite, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, mounted on old lining
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on thin fibrous, transparent paper, partially removed
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on card and attached to mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash with black chalk and white opaque watercolor over black chalk and traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, with an original framing line in brown ink and a later partial framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black and red chalk and gray wash
17th centuryDutch