1637
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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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 [moistened?] on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, with later brown ink and a framing line in brown ink; verso: red and black chalk, incised, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on buff antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and later [?] gray-blue wash over touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch