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
Black chalk and brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and transparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch