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 ink and watercolor with gray wash and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in faint graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, red and black chalk and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper prepared with thin white ground, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, black chalk, blue-green transparent watercolor and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, graphite, and later [?] blue opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on heavy paper or card
17th centuryDutchBistre and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with a partial framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light brown wash.
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutch