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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.123.27
Title
Blank page
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188676

Physical Descriptions

Medium
parchment
Dimensions
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.123.27
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
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.

Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "The Abrams Album: An 'Album Amicorum' of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeeth Century", Master Drawings (Spring 2015), LIII, no. 1, pp. 3-58, p. 32

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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