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 brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on grey-blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on antique laid paper, mounted at all four corners
17th centuryDutchTwo tones of brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, touches of black chalk, and [later?] blue-gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown ink on cream paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, mounted to antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutch