17th century
15 x 13.8 cm (5 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
Perhpas William Roscoe, Liverpool (L. 2645, without his mark), sold; [Winstanley, Liverpool, 23-28 September 1816, 4th day's sale, lot 520 (as Adriaen van Ostade). Sir John Charles Robinson, London (L. 1433, lower right). John Postle Heseltine, London (L. 1507 and 1508, without his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091, without his mark), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Brown ink and blue wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, inlaid to decorative mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and (later?) gray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, traces of a framing line in black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor, black ink, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite at the upper left
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink over brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch