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
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray ink, gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red chalk and traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, squared in graphite, on faded blue antique laid paper; verso: black and white chalk counterproof with touches of ochre, with squaring transferred from recto
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with (later?) gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and black wash on blue antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, with a partial framing line in graphite, on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch