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, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor, and touches of gum arabic on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink ink and later gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down onto Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in places with gold border, mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray-purple wash on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchGray wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted at four corners
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on two vertically joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch