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-purple wash on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite and brown wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in gray or black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, lined and drum mounted
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, faded to light brown
17th centuryDutch