1634-1641
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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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
Transparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, white gouache, over graphite, incised, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and shell gold
17th centuryDutchBrown ink [?] on parchment
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on two sheets of antique laid ledger paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, autograph framing line in graphite
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
17th centuryDutch