Wenzel HOLLAR (Prague 1607 - London 1677...

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Wenzel HOLLAR (Prague 1607 - London 1677) "The stomach and the limbs" Original etching signed in plate in the lower center "WHollar fec.", From the series of fifty-eight subjects from Aesop's Fable dated on the title page 1665 and published in London in the same year. Beautiful specimen printed...
Wenzel HOLLAR (Prague 1607 - London 1677) "The stomach and the limbs" Original etching signed in plate in the lower center "WHollar fec.", From the series of fifty-eight subjects from Aesop's Fable dated on the title page 1665 and published in London in the same year. Beautiful specimen printed with perfect ink rich in gray tones on a portion of thin laid paper bearing the "Grape bunch" watermark similar to Heawood 2268, typical of English paper production of the seventeenth century, with large margins beyond the imprint of the plate and in an almost perfect general state of conservation. Bibliography: Heawood "Monumenta chartae papyraceae" Hilversum 1986 n ° 2268. Parthey "Wenzel Hollar" Amsterdam 1963 No. 368. Measurements in mm: 258 x 174

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