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 chalk and gray ink on dark cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk on the sheet of an account book, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and wash on off-white antique laid paper discolored to tan
17th centuryDutch