LOT DETAILS

Materials:

etching and chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in two shades of mushroom on laid paper

Size Notes:

Mount 433 x 547 mm

Description:

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Condition:

a very good, final state, Mistrali's third, final state, trimmed to or fractionally into the subject, laid onto an 19th century card mount with gilt and wash borders and crayon and ink framing lines, a tiny paper loss at the upper right sheet corner, generally in good condition, framed

Literature:

Bartsch 7; Bartsch 27 (Chiaroscuro); Mistrali 1; see Gnann 59; see Takahatake 38

Provenance:

An old unidentified inscription in brown ink, G 125 (1), at lower right recto (not in Lugt). Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (Lugt 2092); probably his sale, Sonnius, Lankrink and Thompson, London, 11-18 April 1688 or, Walton, London, 15 November 1694 and following days. Ambrose Cardew (1865-1942), London (Lugt 1134). Hugh Scrutton (1917-1991), London (according to the below and without mark). With Christopher Mendez, London, 1983. Acquired from the above, then by descent to the present owner.