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 wash over graphite on light tan 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 centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and yellowish-white pastel on blue paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with a partial framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, charcoal, gray wash, and some white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk with gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch