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 on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and white chalk on brown-gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, pale brown wash, and incidental marks in black chalk on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light rose-brown wash, mounted overall, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed, black and white chalk on cream antique laid paper, composite framing line in red chalk, brown ink, and gray ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink on dark cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutch