16th century
24.7 × 33.5 cm (9 3/4 × 13 3/16 in.)
Hickman, sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1962 (as Antwerp School, c. 1510)], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.79 NOTE: Colnaghi information provided by Stephen Ongpin from Colnaghi's stock books, 2001.
Two shades of brown ink, blue wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on three pieces of cream antique laid paper; some (later?) gray wash on Adam's crotch; partial framing line in brown ink; verso: faint black chalk sketches of architectural motifs
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on light tan antique laid paper, with two compass lines, the lower of which reinforced with graphite, laid down on antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, blue wash, and red chalk
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, autograph framing lines in brown ink, mounted overall
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray, yellow, and bluish-green wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, mounted on an album leaf; verso: composition traced through on verso in black chalk, partially incised
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over touches of black chalk on antique laid paper, toned with red wash and white opaque watercolor
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray, yellow and rose wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on an album leaf; verso: outlines of recto are traced through in black chalk, incised
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, gray wash, and trace of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black chalk, vertical [ruled?] line in graphite
16th centuryNetherlandish