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, touches of black chalk on two pieces of off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink reinforced in graphite
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, later brown ink, partial framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and red and green transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on gray prepared paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk with white opaque watercolor restoration on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, gray and brown wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor
17th centuryDutch