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 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 centuryDutchBrown ink, mounted to antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchCharcoal and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with brown wash (?), framing line in charcoal; verso: red chalk squiggle
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite, some glazing in green areas, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOffset in brown wash on parchment (from the drawing on folio 22 verso); verso: graphite, autograph framing line in graphite
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 centuryDutchGray wash with black chalk and graphite, green and rose transparent watercolor, scraping and traces of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, toned with brown wash, framing lines in graphite and gray wash
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash, squared in red and bluish chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and gray ink, attached to mount at three corners
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutch