c. 1670-1700
10 x 8.5 cm (3 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.) primary mount: 10.4 x 8.9 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.) secondary mount: 17.2 x 15.5 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Probably Hendrik Busserus, Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam (Van der Schley…Maarszen), 21 October 1782, kb 6, lot 315. Perhaps Samuel Woodburn, London. Edward Vernon Utterson, London (L. 909, lower right). George W. Northrop, Boston. Boston art trade, ca. 1965 to Maida and George Abrams, Boston.
Opaque and transparent watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, charcoal, and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down at corners to cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and transparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall on two sheets of antique laid ledger paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, white opaque watercolor, some brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th-18th centuryDutch