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
Black, red, blue, brown, and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper; figures at lower left and wash in sky at upper left are later additions
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in black chalk, on blue antique laid paper with a strip added at the lower edge, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, silhouetted and mounted to off-white antique laid paper prepared with green wash; framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor, partially incised, on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black chalk, gray wash, and brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, graphite, gray wash, white opaque watercolor, and red chalk on light tan antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink.
17th-18th centuryDutchRed chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted overall to a pink mount
17th centuryDutch