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
Opaque watercolor, graphite and shell gold on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, stray white opaque watercolor, stray red pastel, and stray blue-green transparent watercolor stains on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on thick antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown 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 wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray and brown wash, graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, touches of black chalk, and [later?] blue-gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, some incised lines in lower half of added strip at right, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch