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
Watercolor, black chalk, and a modified gum arabic on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on parchment, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchGray wash and brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on two sheets of antique laid paper, the secondary sheet extending 10 mm below the primary one at the bottom, partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on brownish-gray prepared paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, reinforced in black ink at top and left
17th centuryDutch