17th century
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 red chalk counterproof, reworked in red chalk, graphite and black chalk (?) on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash, squared in red and bluish chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and gray ink, attached to mount at three corners
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray ink, watercolor, and graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and pale brown-gray wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch