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
parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down at corners to cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk and graphite, and touches of white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and red wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing line in black ink and red chalk, mounted at all corners
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch