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 over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, red, blue, brown, and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, black chalk, and a modified gum arabic on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and oxidized white opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and oxidized white opaque watercolor over graphite, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor and brown ink with touches of transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, triple framing line in black, gold, and brown
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk, laid down on mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, yellow chalk, gray washes, and white opaque watercolor on gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch