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
Red and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, silhouetted and mounted to off-white antique laid paper prepared with green wash; framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk with white opaque watercolor restoration on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, gray and brown wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor
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 wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black and red chalk, red chalk wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black and red chalk, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper partially toned with brown wash, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and gray ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and gray ink over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch