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 and gray wash, incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and red-brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light brown wash.
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red, blue, and yellow chalk wash with graphite on cream antique laid paper; remnants of a brown-ink framing line at upper, left, and lower edges; verso: brown ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink at left and right
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk or crayon trial strokes and incidental stray red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on grey-blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch