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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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 with gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a center line in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash, with later additions of gray wash, on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white opaque watercolor, and scratchwork on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with touches of graphite and incidental marks in brown ink(?) on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch