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 and brown and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink at lower edge
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk with touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper; framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, red, blue, and yellow chalk wash with graphite on cream antique laid paper; remnants of a brown-ink framing line at upper, left, and lower edges; verso: brown ink and gray wash
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, faded to gray-beige, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, incised throughout, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch