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
Black chalk and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, faded, 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 over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, silhouetted, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, graphite, gray wash, white opaque watercolor, and red chalk on light tan antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink.
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown and gray wash, graphite and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, incised; verso: gray wash and trial strokes in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk, some gum (?) varnish, on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutch