Harvard Art Museums > 1999.123.1-53: Abrams Album Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Abrams Album (Various Artists) , 1999.123.1-53,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Mar 20, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/294019. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.123.1-53 People 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 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 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 1999.123.1-53 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions 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 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 Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 197-206, 210 n. 14, 234, repr. p. 201 as fig. 5 Exhibition History 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 Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016 Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Related Objects Object Number 1999.123.40.2 Artist Unidentified Artist Title Head of a Monster Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.14 Title Blank page; verso: Illegible scribbles Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.46 Artist Govert Flinck Title Man in Middle Eastern Costume Standing in a Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.27 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.24 Artist Christiaen van Couwenbergh Title Blank page; verso: Diana Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.5 Artist Joris Abrahamsz. van der Haagen Title Blank page; verso: Landscape with a Tree, Peasants, and Travelers Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.11 Artist Simon de Vlieger Title Coastal Landscape with Anthropomorphic Rocks Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.9 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.7 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.4 Artist Cornelis Saftleven Title Blank page; verso: Peasant Smoking Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.53 Artist Unidentified Artist Title Inside back cover: Faint Sketch of a Standing Girl Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.6 Artist Leonaert Bramer Title Blank page; verso: Couple Reading a Poem or Singing a Song Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.3 Artist François van Knibbergen Title Wooded Landscape; verso: Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.35 Artist Simon de Vlieger Title Blank page; verso: Landscape with Tower Ruin on a Rock Promontory Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.39 Artist Petrus Staverenus Title Old Man Saying Grace before a Meal Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.38 Artist Adriaen van Ostade Title Seated Peasant Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.32 Artist Ludolf de Jongh Title Lute Player Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.30 Artist Jan Baptist van Fornenburgh Title A Portuguese, Chinese-imitation, Blue-and-white Jug, with Dutch Silver or Gold Mounts Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.31 Artist Pieter Jansz. Quast Title Young Man in Feathered Cap Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.23 Artist Franchoys Ryckhals Title Illegible sketch; verso: Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.47 Artist Cornelis Saftleven Title A Goat in a Barnyard Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.34 Artist Hendrik Verschuring Title A Horse Tethered to a Post Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.45 Artist Jan van Goyen Title Landscape with a Milkmaid; verso: illegible mark Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.42 Artist Emanuel de Witte Title Medusa Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.40.1 Artist Dirck Govertsz. Title Bearded Old Man Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.22 Artist Pieter Anthonisz. van Groenewegen Title Blank page; verso: Italianate Landscape with Ancient Ruins Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.28 Artist Pieter Potter Title Perseus and Andromeda Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.26 Artist Anthonie Palamedesz. Title Blank page; verso: An Officer and a Woman Playing Tric-trac Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.25 Artist Franchoys Ryckhals Title Blank page; verso: Landscape with Cattle Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.18 Artist Palamedes Palamedesz. Title Mounted Soldier before a Tent Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.19 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.16 Artist Joris Cruijdaen Title A Monk with a Staff Walking in a Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.13 Artist Pieter van Asch Title Wooded Landscape with Barn Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.12 Artist Unidentified Artist Title Sacrifices of Cain and Abel Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.2 Artist Pieter de Bloot Title Seated Smoker Holding Tongs; verso: Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.49 Artist Willem van Aelst Title Blank page; verso: Vanitas Still Life with Armor Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.33 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.29 Artist Ludolf de Jongh Title Mounted Soldier Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.50 Artist Petrus Staverenus Title Blank page; verso: Two Men Smoking and Drinking Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.43 Artist Pieter Jansz. Quast Title Blank page; verso: Man Wearing a Hat Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.48 Artist Joris Abrahamsz. van der Haagen Title Mountain Landscape with a River and Distant City Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.44 Title Illegible incidental marks; verso: offset from recto of folio 45 recto Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.36 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.41 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.37 Artist Joris Abrahamsz. van der Haagen Title Wooded Landscape with Peasants Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.21 Artist Simon de Vlieger Title Blank page; verso: Rocky Coastal Landscape Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.15 Artist Evert van Aelst Title Lute Player Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.20 Artist Leonaert Bramer Title Sleeping Diana Spied upon by a Satyr Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.8 Artist Jan van Goyen Title River Landscape with Cottage Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.17 Artist Pieter Steenwijck Title Peasant Couple Feasting Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.10 Artist Adriaen van Ostade Title Seated Peasant Drinking; verso: Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.1 Artist Unidentified Artist Title Incomplete Landscape Sketches; verso: Faint sketch of a Head Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.51 Title Blank page Classification Drawings Object Number 1999.123.52 Title Blank page; verso: Sketch of Foliage(?) 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