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
Transparent watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and black chalk with scratchwork and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted overall on wove paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink and black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor with scratchwork on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and shell gold
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, faded to gray-blue, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk, partially incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch