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 and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk on the sheet of an account book, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash, framing lines (trimmed) in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, touches of black chalk, and [later?] blue-gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with white opaque watercolor on brown toned paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk, with later additions of dark gray wash and white and yellow opaque watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and gray wash over black chalk
17th centuryDutch