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, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, squared in graphite, on faded blue antique laid paper; verso: black and white chalk counterproof with touches of ochre, with squaring transferred from recto
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light brown wash.
17th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray ink, watercolor, and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutch