5388 - 5863 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Narrow margins; a few foxed spots.
= New Hollstein 51, 9th state (of 9); Hollstein/ Bartsch and White/ Boon 165. "Very scarce" (Usticke). With unidentified collector's mark on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Trimmed to the borders. Fine copy on 18th cent. laid paper (no watermark visible), tipped onto mount along upper margin.
= New Hollstein 302, 4th state (of 5), before the restoration of the shadow on the wall between Christ and the woman. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Fine and rather delicate impression; cut just outside the platemark, except for the upper edge: 2 mm inside the platemark.
= New Hollstein 143, 1st state (of 3), before the darkening of the shadows. White/ Boon B 80, only state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Mount sl. foxed. Print in fine condition.
= The printing on chine collé, the mount itself and the surrounding plate mark in the mount suggest a 19th cent. impression, made from a plate by an unidentified artist after the second state as listed under Hollstein 239, II: the print is without the shading of the shoulder of the man seen in profile near the left edge in the lower left foreground, and differs in some points compared to the third reworked state by Baillie (e.g. the darkening of the shadows), and it is also not identical to the later 18th and 19th cent. helio-engravings traced by us.
- One tear in left margin reaching ±1 cm. into the image; two tears in left blank margin (not affecting the image); all three tears closed w. old tape (yellowed on verso); right blank margin sl. creased and w. one sm. (unclosed) tear in blank margin only; old horizontal fold in image; traces of former mounting in top margin on verso, resulting in sl. darker spots in upper blank corners.
= Hollstein 306, 5th state of 9. For the watermarks see Hinterding, Miscellaneous-F-c-a_HMP-235383 (Auvergne 1742 watermark, found on the portrait of Coppenol (the larger plate; Bartsch 583, 5th state, dating c.1658) and see Hinterding, Lion-B-a_KVC-VII-380-195 (found on The artist drawing from the model and dated c.1639). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Thread margins; a few tiny foxed spots. Fine copy.
= Hollstein 151, the third state (of 3). With unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 1493) on verso.
- Sharp Basan impression with broad margins. Trifle yellowed.
= New Hollstein 144, the 7th and final state; Hollstein/ Bartsch and White/ Boon 124, third and final state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Paper neatly split (3,4 cm.) on right plate mark.
= New Hollstein 131, only state. Partly sl. weak impression, printed on thin paper (no watermark). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Both upper corners dam.; neatly restored tear in lower margin.
= Hollstein 141, 1st state (of 3). Provenance: collector's mark Lugt 2889 (Lanier?) in lower right corner on recto and collector's mark Lugt 1209 (Comte de Renesse-Breidbach, renowned for his fine collection of Rembrandt etchings) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Fine dark impression; printer's flaw in lower margin.
= New Hollstein 213, 2nd and final state: "Completely reworked in mezzotint. Not by Rembrandt." Hollstein/ Bartsch and White/ Boon 148.
- Browned; under passepartout. = Delteil 5, the 3rd state (of 3). Provenance: the collection G. Hofland.
- Mounted on paper; sl. foxed.
- A few small (foxed) spots. = Hollstein 12, only state.
- Fine impression, cut to/ just inside the borderline.
= Fine etching, only known in later states, reworked by A. Waterloo. Hollstein/ Ruischer 20.
AND 3 other etchings, i.a. by H. NAYWINCX (Hollstein 8).
- Yellowed/ sl. browned; some foxed spots.
= Hollstein 1, the 2nd state (of 2), the sky etched and with retouches of dry-point.
- Ample margins. = Depicting a scene from the Decamerone by Boccaccio.
- Minor imperfections. = Hollstein 15-28, with a few duplicates.
- All trimmed to the platemark. = From i.a. the series Oraculum Anachoreticum.