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
Brown ink, gray wash, black chalk on antique laid paper, mounted at all four corners
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk with gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, gray and gray-green wash and black chalk on white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor with scratchwork on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with gray wash, partial framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper; verso: reddened for transfer
17th centuryDutch?