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
Black ink, gray wash, and red-brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on white antique laid paper, remains of a framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash over black chalk on coarse gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with white opaque watercolor on brown toned paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutch