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
Brown and black ink, gray wash, and black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchOiled charcoal and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, pale brown wash, and incidental marks in black chalk on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light rose-brown wash, mounted overall, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchRed chalk counterproof with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on coarse light tan antique laid paper, laid down; verso of mount: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack, yellow, and white chalk, gray wash and charcoal on light tan antique laid paper framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch