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
Black and white chalk on blue paper, partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on white antique laid paper, prepared with red chalk wash, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchTwo tones of brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite
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 centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink ink and later gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down onto Asian paper
17th centuryDutch