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
Opaque watercolor and brown ink with touches of transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, triple framing line in black, gold, and brown
17th centuryDutchGouache and watercolor
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash on white prepared parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on two sheets of antique laid ledger paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch