Lot Essay
Hollstein records three impressions of this print, in Hamburg, in Vienna and one in Dresden, which appears to be a war loss. Another impression is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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The Woman with the Cat
Details
Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (1500-1559)
The Woman with the Cat
etching with engraving, 1546, on thick laid paper, with an indistinct watermark, a strong, early impression of an unrecorded first state of this extremely rare print, before much additional cross-hatching present in the other known impressions, trimmed inside the platemark but outside the subject, lacking the outer border, a few short vertical cuts in the upper subject, one with a small thinly backed paper loss, the upper left corner tip made-up, several small wormholes, some thin spots and pale staining and other, minor defects
S. 202 x 134 mm.
The Woman with the Cat
etching with engraving, 1546, on thick laid paper, with an indistinct watermark, a strong, early impression of an unrecorded first state of this extremely rare print, before much additional cross-hatching present in the other known impressions, trimmed inside the platemark but outside the subject, lacking the outer border, a few short vertical cuts in the upper subject, one with a small thinly backed paper loss, the upper left corner tip made-up, several small wormholes, some thin spots and pale staining and other, minor defects
S. 202 x 134 mm.
Literature
Hollstein 18
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Please note that this work is in fact an early impression of an unrecorded first state before much cross-hatching present in impressions at the Metropolitan Museum and in Hamburg.
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