1634-1641
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 and white chalk on blue paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink and partial black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk, with later additions of dark gray wash and white and yellow opaque watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk counterproof, reworked in red chalk, graphite and black chalk (?) on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, discolored to brown
17th centuryDutchBrown and gray wash, graphite and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, incised; verso: gray wash and trial strokes in black ink
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchCharcoal and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with brown wash (?), framing line in charcoal; verso: red chalk squiggle
17th centuryDutch