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
Transparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper partially toned with brown wash, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk, with later additions of dark gray wash and white and yellow opaque watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, graphite, and later [?] blue opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on heavy paper or card
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink on dark cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on brown paper
17th centuryDutchGouache and watercolor
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and brown ink
17th centuryDutch