c. 1640-1642
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
Graphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink ink and later gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down onto Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk, laid down on mount
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment, mounted down
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and graphite (?) on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite (?)
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch