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, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchPrussian blue (blue-green) ink and blue-green wash on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and transparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on brown prepared paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch