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 chalk, black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash
16th-17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchOil, with pricked outlines, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, autograph framing line in charcoal; verso: test strokes in white chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, and later touches of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper prepared with light tan wash, partial framing line in black chalk at upper edge
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchTwo tones of brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite
17th centuryDutchGraphite and red chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutch