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 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 centuryDutchGray and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray and brown wash over black and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, incised, framing line in brown ink, mounted on a gilt and hand-colored mount of blue paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink; a paper inlay 10 mm wide around the edges on the verso
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, charcoal, and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and brown, gray, and black ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch