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
Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white opaque watercolor, and scratchwork on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on gray prepared paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and red chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray ink, watercolor, and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, silhouetted, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, red, and green washes over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutch