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.
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 and gray wash over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing line in black ink and red chalk, mounted at all corners
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk; two overlapping rectangles in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink [?] on parchment
17th centuryDutchGray ink and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper possibly prepared with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, red, and green washes over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack, yellow, and white chalk, gray wash and charcoal on light tan antique laid paper framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutch