c. 1635-1645
An album of 52 parchment leaves, in a black leather stationer's binding of the seventeenth century. The cover measures 11.7 x 15.8 cm; the pages measure 11 x 15.2 cm. 41 full-page drawings were executed directly onto the bound sheets, some on the recto, and some on the verso (in folio 40, drawings are on both the recto and the verso of the same leaf). All but five of the drawings are signed. Parchment stubs between pages indicate that six leaves have been cut out.
cover: 11.7 x 15.8 cm (4 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.) pages: 11 × 15.2 cm (4 5/16 × 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
Graphite and black chalk, partially incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray and brown wash, graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, pale brown wash, and incidental marks in black chalk on cream antique laid paper, prepared with light rose-brown wash, mounted overall, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash, with later additions of gray wash, on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk , graphite, and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch