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 over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, lined and drum mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, graphite, and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutch