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
Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment adhered to panel; thick framing line in brown watercolor
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, faded, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper pasted down on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, stray white opaque watercolor, stray red pastel, and stray blue-green transparent watercolor stains on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on thick antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper; with later additions of gray wash and black chalk, and some scratchwork at the contour of wing at the upper left and the right column base at lower left
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, partly incised, on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutch