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, brown wash, black chalk, and later touches of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper prepared with light tan wash, partial framing line in black chalk at upper edge
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan Asian paper; verso: stray mark in purple pencil
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
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 centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk [possibly a counterproof?] on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutch