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 and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, two framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, brown ink, and yellow-green wash on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on two sheets of antique laid paper, the secondary sheet extending 10 mm below the primary one at the bottom, partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on thin fibrous, transparent paper, partially removed
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite; verso: graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor with scratchwork on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper; verso: traces of black chalk
17th centuryDutch