1634-1641
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
Black and white chalk and black wash on blue antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink over black chalk
17th centuryDutchOil on beige antique laid paper, prepared with blue oil paint
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor with touches of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, white opaque watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, with an original framing line in brown ink and a later partial framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk, some gum (?) varnish, on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutch