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
Red chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink over red chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with gray wash
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; double framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and gray ink over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor on tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black and red chalk and gray wash
17th centuryDutchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper, the figure trimmed at all edges and mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor or chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and brown ink
17th centuryDutch