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
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment, mounted down
17th centuryDutchRed chalk, incised, on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOil, with pricked outlines, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold, on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash over black chalk on coarse gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk with touches of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray ink and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper possibly prepared with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk or crayon trial strokes and incidental stray red chalk
17th centuryDutch