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
Black and white chalk, with a framing line in black chalk, on blue antique laid paper with a strip added at the lower edge, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchCharcoal and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with brown wash (?), framing line in charcoal; verso: red chalk squiggle
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor on tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink; a paper inlay 10 mm wide around the edges on the verso
17th centuryDutchOil on beige antique laid paper, prepared with blue oil paint
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, faded to gray-beige, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor or chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutch