c. 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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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 chalk, with a partial framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite with touches of black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink on dark cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing line in brown ink, attached to mount with two brown ink framing lines
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk on the sheet of an account book, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, red, blue, brown, and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and brown ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch