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
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment; verso: graphite(?)
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor with brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch