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 on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash, squared in red and bluish chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and gray ink, attached to mount at three corners
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 centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down at corners to cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchRed chalk [moistened?] on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted at three corners
17th-18th centuryDutchRed and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, silhouetted and mounted to off-white antique laid paper prepared with green wash; framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch