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 wash and ink on antique laid paper, framing line in gold; mount: graphite, brown wash, and gold
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with later graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown opaque watercolor (?) on white prepared parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper; verso: graphite, black ink, and red chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on faded blue (?) paper
17th centuryDutch