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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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 chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and pale brown-gray wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, brown ink, and yellow-green wash on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk along left and bottom margins and framing line in black ink along top and right margins; verso: red chalk [another hand?]
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk with gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and later [?] gray-blue wash over touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchRed chalk with touches of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch