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
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, touches of black chalk, and [later?] blue-gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold, on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray ink, partially incised, on of-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink; verso: red chalk, rubbed
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on faded blue (?) paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, mounted at three corners
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and red and blue transparent watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and gray and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted overall to a pink mount
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a center line in black chalk
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