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 brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink ink and later gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down onto Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite and metalpoint (?) on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and black chalk steeped in oil on off-white antique laid paper; some incised lines at lower left
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and brown wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor, graphite and shell gold on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutch