1637
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
Graphite on paper pasted down on parchment
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and brown wash on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and white chalk on brown-gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, some incised lines in lower half of added strip at right, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown and black ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch