The Intaglio Printers

1642

Abraham Bosse

Artist, French, 1602 - 1676

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 25.8 × 32.3 cm (10 3/16 × 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.14.1292

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, no. 745

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929], London, (L.1508). W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image: Cette figure vous montre Comme on Imprime les planches de taille douce...faict a leau forte par ABosse a Paris en Lislle du palais lan 1642, avec privilege; in later hand, in brown ink, at below image, at left: No. 47; verso: in later hand, in red ink, at lower left: i:P:H

Wikidata ID

Q65214135

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