1635
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
Graphite and brown wash, with a framing line in black ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOil on beige antique laid paper, prepared with blue oil paint
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash over black chalk on coarse gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor with touches of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with gray wash, partial framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and small touch of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutch