SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK | LUCAS VORSTERMAN (HOLLSTEIN, MAUQUOY-HENDRICKX 14; NEW HOLLSTEIN 12)

Property from a Private Collection
SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK
1599 - 1641
LUCAS VORSTERMAN (HOLLSTEIN, MAUQUOY-HENDRICKX 14; NEW HOLLSTEIN 12)

Etching, 1630, a fine impression of the very rare first state (of seven), printing with delicate tone and vertical polishing scratches, though the overbitten areas starting to show in the densely-hatched parts of the cloak, on paper with an Interlaced 'C's Surmounted by a Crown watermark (cf. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1), unframed
plate: 243 by 157mm 9½ by 6⅛in
sheet: 249 by 164mm 9¾ by 6½in

Condition Report:
With small to narrow margins, in good condition, a very small area of thinning at lower left, a pin hole at upper centre, unframed.

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Provenance:
Ex coll. Albert Millot (L. 148)