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
Brown ink and wash with white opaque watercolor over black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and blue-gray wash, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and red wash, over traces of black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper; traces of later restoration in white opaque watercolor; verso: black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray-purple wash on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and gold wash; verso: graphite tracing of two figures from upper left recto
17th centuryDutch