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 on toned Asian paper, mounted overall to a sheet of off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink over brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on buff antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on grey-blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, charcoal, gray wash, and some white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchGouache and watercolor
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk and graphite on blue antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with framing lines in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on two sheets of antique laid paper, the secondary sheet extending 10 mm below the primary one at the bottom, partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutch