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
Transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and transparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk or charcoal and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, traces of a framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk and brown wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk, incised, on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, remnants of a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, faded to gray-blue, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue paper faded to brown
17th centuryDutch