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, brown and gray wash, transparent watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and red chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted at three corners
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, gray and gray-green wash and black chalk on white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and (later?) gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, faded, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch