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
Black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, later brown ink, partial framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, squared in graphite, on faded blue antique laid paper; verso: black and white chalk counterproof with touches of ochre, with squaring transferred from recto
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor, and touches of gum arabic on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch