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
Brown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, silhouetted, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper mounted on parchment page
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and oiled brown chalk(?) on parchment
17th centuryDutch