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
Graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted overall (with secondary sheet extending at top by .5 cm); framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, graphite, and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in ink or black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, later brown ink, partial framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk, with later additions of dark gray wash and white and yellow opaque watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on buff antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, graphite, gray wash, white opaque watercolor, and red chalk on light tan antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink.
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