1637
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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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
Watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk and red and green transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown ink on cream paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, black chalk, graphite, and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th-18th 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 and gray wash, pink and green transparent watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor and gray and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, charcoal, gray wash, and some white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutchBrown wash, brown ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash, black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutch