1640
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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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 and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, faded, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and watercolor with gray wash and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in faint graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a center line in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white opaque watercolor and touches of red and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, pink and green transparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown and blue wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack, white, and yellow (?) chalk on blue paper; perhaps black and white chalk and blue watercolor on oatmeal paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, discolored to brown
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash, with corrections in opaque white watercolor, on cream antique laid paper, discolored to beige (mounted)
17th centuryDutch