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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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 ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor or chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, faded to gray-blue, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and oxidized white opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and oxidized white opaque watercolor over graphite, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray ink, and gray wash with brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black and red chalk, red chalk wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and red chalk, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink on dark cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchGray ink and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper possibly prepared with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk or opaque watercolor with stray oil [?], with a framing line in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, perhaps prepared
17th centuryDutch