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 chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk counterproof, possibly worked up in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown and gray wash, graphite and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, incised; verso: gray wash and trial strokes in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, partially incised, on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink; verso blackened with chalk for transfer
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray washes on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, double framing line in brown ink and gray wash
17th-18th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, black chalk, blue-green transparent watercolor and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red, blue, and yellow chalk wash with graphite on cream antique laid paper; remnants of a brown-ink framing line at upper, left, and lower edges; verso: brown ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch