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 on white antique laid paper, extensively incised, framing line in brown ink, laid down on Japanese paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, later brown ink, partial framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and gray ink over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on brownish-gray prepared paper
17th centuryDutch