Melchior Lorck, a portrait of the Persian ambassador Isma’il (Hollstein 29), engraving, 1569

A good impression of the third (final) state, on paper with an indistinct watermark (possibly a fleur de lis)

With small to narrow margins, two horizontal repaired tears at left edge (one 'L' shaped one running above the platemark to the upper edge measuring 3cm; the other just below measuring 1.5cm), a few marginal repaired nicks at this edge, a few horizontal and vertical folds (a central vertical one broken through at extreme edges in the margins, a lower horizontal one broken through at left in the lower drapery), supported with a thin sheet of japan paper, as viewed.
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See note to lot 94.