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
Black chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red, blue, and yellow chalk wash with graphite on cream antique laid paper; remnants of a brown-ink framing line at upper, left, and lower edges; verso: brown ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown 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 centuryDutchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, traces of a framing line in black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutch