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 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 centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down on an inlay mount, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, pinhole in the center, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink, partially incised, on of-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink; verso: red chalk, rubbed
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on coarse light tan antique laid paper, laid down; verso of mount: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on white antique laid paper, remains of a framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchCharcoal (oiled?), black chalk, and white chalk on brown antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, silhouetted, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch