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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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
Red chalk on antique laid paper; verso: reddened for transfer
17th centuryDutch?Black ink, gray wash, and red-brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper probably toned with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray ink, watercolor, and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, transparent watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and [later?] gray wash over graphite, partially incised, on cream antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th-18th centuryDutchGray wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and colored wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on gray prepared paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutch