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 wash and transparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink and partial black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted at three corners
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on two sheets of antique laid paper, the secondary sheet extending 10 mm below the primary one at the bottom, partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash, graphite, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray washes on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, double framing line in brown ink and gray wash
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed, black and white chalk on cream antique laid paper, composite framing line in red chalk, brown ink, and gray ink
17th centuryDutch