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.
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
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, two framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOil on beige antique laid paper, prepared with blue oil paint
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, faded to gray-blue, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on grey-blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch