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 cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, with application of gum, and opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on cream antqiue laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite with touches of white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and later [?] gray-blue wash over touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
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 ink, brown wash and gray wash mixed with white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutch