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
Red chalk counterproof with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, gray and gray-green wash and black chalk on white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, brown ink, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray washes on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, double framing line in brown ink and gray wash
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in black chalk, on blue antique laid paper with a strip added at the lower edge, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and later [?] gray-blue wash over touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown 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 centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised in design areas and compass-point hole at center, attached to mount with two framing lines in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink and black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutch