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 and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor, partially incised, on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, some contours incised, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
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 centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red, blue, and yellow chalk wash with graphite on cream antique laid paper; remnants of a brown-ink framing line at upper, left, and lower edges; verso: brown ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment, mounted down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch