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.
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, brown wash and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in gray or black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper; framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBistre and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, partly incised, on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutch