1635
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
Transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk along left and bottom margins and framing line in black ink along top and right margins; verso: red chalk [another hand?]
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor with brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, charcoal, graphite, and blue pastel on blue paper; incised under chin
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and graphite (?) on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite (?)
17th centuryDutch