c. 1640-1641
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.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 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
parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, inlaid to decorative mount
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on paper
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, remnants of a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor or chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk, laid down on mount
17th centuryDutch