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
Graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchRed chalk counterproof with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray wash on parchment, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchGray and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, yellow chalk, gray washes, and white opaque watercolor on gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and brown wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray and brown wash, graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and watercolor with gray wash and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in faint graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted at three corners
17th-18th centuryDutch