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
Brown ink on dark cream 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 centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor with touches of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing line in brown ink, attached to mount with two brown ink framing lines
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with white opaque watercolor on brown toned paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, with a partial framing line in graphite, on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with incidental offset of red chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch