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DrawingsDutch17th century

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17th century

Description

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.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

parchment

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 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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