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 and gray wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and gold wash; verso: graphite tracing of two figures from upper left recto
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with framing lines in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and red-brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, brown ink, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with white opaque watercolor on brown toned paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutch