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
Black chalk with incidental offset of red chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on toned Asian paper, mounted overall to a sheet of off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark black ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on coarse light tan antique laid paper, laid down; verso of mount: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, with later additions of brown, gray, and black ink and wash and touches of white opaque white watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch