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
Black chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper pasted down on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, graphite, and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white opaque watercolor and touches of red and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutch