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
Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on coarse light tan antique laid paper, laid down; verso of mount: red chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, red and black chalk and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper prepared with thin white ground, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, graphite, and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, touches of black chalk, and [later?] blue-gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in black chalk, on blue antique laid paper with a strip added at the lower edge, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment, mounted down
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and watercolor with gray wash and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in faint graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper probably toned with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink and partial black chalk
17th centuryDutch