17th century
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
Watercolor and brown, gray, and black ink on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, pinhole in the center, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and (later?) gray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray washes on off-white antique laid paper, mounted, double framing line in brown ink and gray wash
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with later graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutch