Abrams Album
c. 1635-1645
Artists
Description
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.
Dimensions
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.)
Provenance
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
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