1635
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
Transparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and [later?] gray wash over graphite, partially incised, on cream antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, graphite, and later [?] blue opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on heavy paper or card
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, faded to light brown
17th centuryDutch