La Foire de l’Impruneta

Lot n° 136
42,2cmx66,6cm

Etching, 1620, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Single Circle surmounted by Coronet (similar to Haewood 1632), a fine impression of the very rare third state (of five), printing with much tone and burr in places, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline at right, trimmed to or just outside the borderline above and at left, fractionally into the text below, a few brown stains, with the usual vertical central crease, partially broken through and backed below, a long, oblique repaired cut at the upper right