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
Brown ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised in design areas and compass-point hole at center, attached to mount with two framing lines in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink and graphite on parchment, mounted ata four corners
17th centuryDutchGraphite and red chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch