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, gray and brown and green and yellow transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line on three sides in gray ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and black ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown and gray ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchGray and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutch