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, brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on two vertically joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream 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 and brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on beige antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor and graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown and gray ink and brown wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk; two overlapping rectangles in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink at left and right
17th centuryDutch