17th century
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, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on Asian paper; later additions in gray wash and scratchwork, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash, incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk or opaque watercolor with stray oil [?], with a framing line in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, perhaps prepared
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink and graphite on parchment, mounted ata four corners
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black and red chalk on oatmeal (formerly blue) paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray and brown wash, touches of graphite, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash, and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown opaque watercolor (?) on white prepared parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, autograph framing line in graphite
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, with a partial framing line in graphite, on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch