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, gray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, white opaque watercolor, some brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown opaque watercolor (?) on white prepared parchment
17th centuryDutchGray wash, black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and later [?] gray-blue wash over touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch