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
Transparent and opaque watercolor with brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with later graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, and later touches of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper prepared with light tan wash, partial framing line in black chalk at upper edge
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, brown wash, green and rose transparent watercolor, and opaque white watercolor (now darkened) on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on buff antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch