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 traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing line in brown ink, attached to mount with two brown ink framing lines
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, two framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on toned Asian paper, mounted overall to a sheet of off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark black ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted overall (with secondary sheet extending at top by .5 cm); framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on brownish-gray prepared paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, autograph framing line in graphite
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and wash on off-white antique laid paper discolored to tan
17th centuryDutch