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
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, traces of a framing line in black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor, black ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite at the upper left
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper probably toned with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch