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After Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569)
Pagus nemorosus, from Set of the Large Landscapes (Bast. 16; Holl. 13; Lari 15)
etching with engraving, circa 1553, first state (of two), with the address of Cock's address, a fine, early impression of this rare landscape, with the guiding lines on the title distinct, watermark Scales (?), irregularly trimmed around the title and to the borderline on three sides, trimmed into the subject at the left sheet edge as far as the 'r' of Brueghel, the usual central vertical drying fold, backed at the upper reverse sheet edge, paper adhesions at the reverse sheet edges, some foxing, other minor defects
S. 305 x 418mm.
Pagus nemorosus, from Set of the Large Landscapes (Bast. 16; Holl. 13; Lari 15)
etching with engraving, circa 1553, first state (of two), with the address of Cock's address, a fine, early impression of this rare landscape, with the guiding lines on the title distinct, watermark Scales (?), irregularly trimmed around the title and to the borderline on three sides, trimmed into the subject at the left sheet edge as far as the 'r' of Brueghel, the usual central vertical drying fold, backed at the upper reverse sheet edge, paper adhesions at the reverse sheet edges, some foxing, other minor defects
S. 305 x 418mm.