1638
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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
Black, red, blue, brown, and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in places with gold border, mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and red wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with touches of graphite and incidental marks in brown ink(?) on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black and red chalk on oatmeal (formerly blue) paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and wash with white opaque watercolor over black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and red wash, over traces of black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper; traces of later restoration in white opaque watercolor; verso: black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white opaque watercolor on Asian paper; later additions in gray wash and scratchwork, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutch