1637
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
Brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGray ink and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper possibly prepared with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and (later?) gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, mounted at three corners
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutch