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
Black chalk, graphite, and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in ink or black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and pale brown-gray wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, partially incised, on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink; verso blackened with chalk for transfer
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, double framing line at bottom in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in places with gold border, mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on grey-blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash, with corrections in opaque white watercolor, on cream antique laid paper, discolored to beige (mounted)
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch