1639
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 transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and transparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing line in black ink and red chalk, mounted at all corners
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchGray wash, graphite, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk [moistened?] on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, and gray wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and graphite (?) on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite (?)
17th centuryDutch