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 ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and charcoal on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, partly incised, on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutch