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
Opaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk, with later additions of brown ink, red chalk, and gray wash, on off-white antique laid paper cut into an oval and mounted to off-white antique laid paper, framing lines and horixontal and vertical axes lines in graphite
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown and gray ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, with later brown ink and a framing line in brown ink; verso: red and black chalk, incised, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in black ink over brown ink, a pinhole in the center, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch