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
Black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk or charcoal and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk and brown wash
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray-purple wash on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchGray wash, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black and red chalk and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
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 graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and gold wash; verso: graphite tracing of two figures from upper left recto
17th centuryDutch