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 ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper; verso: traces of black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white opaque watercolor and touches of red and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper; verso: graphite, black ink, and red chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; patch: greenish gray wash, black chalk, brown ink, and a combination of darker brown ink and opaque watercolor to conceal join
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray and brown and green and yellow transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line on three sides in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall
17th centuryDutch