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 red chalk counterproof, reworked in red chalk, graphite and black chalk (?) on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and white chalk on brown-gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor and brown ink with touches of transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, triple framing line in black, gold, and brown
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, red and black chalk and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper prepared with thin white ground, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutch