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
Red and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and shell gold
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, charcoal, gray wash, and some white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, some contours incised, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutch