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 and black ink, gray wash, and black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray wash on parchment, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor with brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and ink on antique laid paper, framing line in gold; mount: graphite, brown wash, and gold
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk counterproof, possibly worked up in black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted overall to a pink mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and small touch of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch