Galley slaves preparing a meal
Rome: M. Scheap, 1658. Engraving on cream laid paper, 4 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (117 x 125 mm); sheet 5 x 6 1/8 inches (128 x 151 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with paper tape remnants at the top corners on the verso. Adhesive residue at the corners and top-center sheet, on the verso. These condition points are unobtrusive and consistent with age. With the Saint John Dent collector's stamp (Lugt 2373) in red ink in the lower left sheet on the verso.
A note on the provenance:
The print collection assembled by this connoisseur was one of the most important of its time. Its origins seem to date back to the time of the Masterman Sykes sale (1824); the collector is believed to have made acquisitions there, as well as at the Buckingham (1834), Hawkins (1850), and Wellesley (circa 1860) sales. He also benefited from the dispersal of the Beckford collection (circa 1840), bought from Woodburn, and, among the many other renowned collections that the catalogue of his sale cites as direct or indirect sources of his best prints, one finds all the great names of the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries: Mariette, Pond, Astley, Ottley, Durand, T. Wilson, Esdaile, von Fries, Durazzo, Aylesford, Debois, Paignon-Dijonval, Bammeville, Marshall, to name only the best known. The collector lived in Bryanston Square, London. His library was sold at Sotheby's on April 5, 1884. -Fritz Lugt.
Item number: 1681
Price: $500.00
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