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 and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment; verso: graphite(?)
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk with touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper; framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a center line in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutch