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.
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 and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper; verso: traces of black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray and brown wash on oatmeal antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, pink and green transparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutch