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.
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 ink, gray wash over black chalk on coarse gray antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, white, and yellow (?) chalk on blue paper; perhaps black and white chalk and blue watercolor on oatmeal paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th-18th centuryDutchRed chalk [moistened?] on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and graphite at right, some ruled, and in black chalk at bottom
17th centuryDutch