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
Brown ink on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray and red wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and brown ink on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, white opaque watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch