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
Oil, with pricked outlines, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and gray ink over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper mounted on parchment page
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, autograph framing line in graphite
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, white opaque watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch