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
Brown ink and blue-gray wash, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed chalk with touches of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper; verso: black and red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in black ink over brown ink, a pinhole in the center, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, white, and yellow (?) chalk on blue paper; perhaps black and white chalk and blue watercolor on oatmeal paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash with black chalk and white opaque watercolor over black chalk and traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and gold wash; verso: graphite tracing of two figures from upper left recto
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black and red chalk, red chalk wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and red chalk, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch