JUSEPE DE RIBERA (CIRCA 1591-1652)
Drunken Silenus
etching, 1628, on thin laid paper, watermark Cross in a Gourd (Briquet 946, dated 1618), a good impression of the second state (of three), trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a repaired paper split in the leg of the satyr at left, a vertical printer's crease and a stain on the belly of Silenus, and other defects
Sheet 272 x 348 mm.
JUSEPE DE RIBERA (CIRCA 1591-1652)
Drunken Silenus
etching, 1628, on thin laid paper, watermark Cross in a Gourd (Briquet 946, dated 1618), a good impression of the second state (of three), trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a repaired paper split in the leg of the satyr at left, a vertical printer's crease and a stain on the belly of Silenus, and other defects
Sheet 272 x 348 mm.
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