1637
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
Brown ink and watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and gray and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray wash on parchment, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown, red, and green washes over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutch