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