- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1999.123.1-53
- People
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Various Artists
- Title
- Abrams Album
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- album
- Date
- c. 1635-1645
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294019
- Physical Descriptions
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- Dimensions
- cover: 11.7 x 15.8 cm (4 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
pages: 11 × 15.2 cm (4 5/16 × 6 in.)
- Provenance
- 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
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.123.1-53
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- An album of 52 parchment leaves, in a black leather stationer's binding of the seventeenth century. The cover measures 11.7 x 15.8 cm; the pages measure 11 x 15.2 cm. 41 full-page drawings were executed directly onto the bound sheets, some on the recto, and some on the verso (in folio 40, drawings are on both the recto and the verso of the same leaf). All but five of the drawings are signed. Parchment stubs between pages indicate that six leaves have been cut out.
- Publication History
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William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 20, pp. 58-59
William W. Robinson, "Abrams Dutch Drawings Given to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.", Apollo (December 1999), vol. 150, pp. 14-16, p. 16
Seymour Slive, "Collecting 17th-century Dutch art in the United States: the current boom", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2001), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 84-99, p. 98 (n. 11)
Michiel C. Plomp, "[Review] Bruegel to Rembrandt. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection.", Oud Holland (2004), vol. 117, no. 1/2, pp. 99-102, pp. 99-101 (n. 3)
Christiaan P. van Eeghen, "Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, II: Chalk Drawings Other than Pure Landscapes", Master Drawings (2011), vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 179-221, p. 212
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, pp. 3-58, front cover repr. p. 3 as fig. 1
Giovanna Sapori, L'album amicorum come libro di disegni. Alcuni esempi tra Cinquecento e Seicento (Venius, Ortelius, Abrams, Heyblocq), Libri e album di disegni 1550-1800: Nuove prospettive metodologiche e di esegesi storico-critica (Rome, 2018), pp. 107-110, illus. pp. 106-107, figs. 13-17
- Exhibition History
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Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/22/1997
A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
Vermeer and the Delft School, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/05/2001 - 05/27/2001
Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012
Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, National Gallery of Art, 06/24/2012 - 10/14/2012
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
- Related Works
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