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
Black chalk, brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on two vertically joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray and brown and green and yellow transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line on three sides in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on two sheets of antique laid ledger paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, yellow chalk, gray washes, and white opaque watercolor on gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, with later additions of brown, gray, and black ink and wash and touches of white opaque white watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper; verso: reddened for transfer
17th centuryDutch?Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray ink, and gray wash with brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch