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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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, white opaque watercolor, some brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and gray wash mixed with white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, stray white opaque watercolor, stray red pastel, and stray blue-green transparent watercolor stains on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on thick antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan Asian paper; verso: stray mark in purple pencil
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch