1641
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
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed, black and white chalk on cream antique laid paper, composite framing line in red chalk, brown ink, and gray ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, pinhole in the center, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, some contours incised, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper; with later additions of gray wash and black chalk, and some scratchwork at the contour of wing at the upper left and the right column base at lower left
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, with later additions of brown, gray, and black ink and wash and touches of white opaque white watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper, the figure trimmed at all edges and mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black and red chalk on oatmeal (formerly blue) paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and red and green transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch