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, charcoal, gray wash, and some white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown wash and graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk; verso: blackened with black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, red chalk, gray and brown wash, and yellow transparent watercolor over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk, laid down in an inlay mount
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
17th centuryDutch