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
Oil on beige antique laid paper, prepared with blue oil paint
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk on faded blue (?) paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, later brown ink, partial framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown opaque watercolor (?) on white prepared parchment
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutch