1637
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 ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in places with gold border, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on antique laid blue paper discolored to greenish brown, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchCharcoal (oiled?), black chalk, and white chalk on brown antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutch