LOT DETAILS

Materials:

432 etchings and engravings

Size Notes:

overall

Description:

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Markings:

with countermark Letter D and various watermarks Bunch of Grapes, inscribed in brown ink on the front cover 435 Estampes / No. 13 / 435. Estampes de Martin Hemskerk

Condition:

bound in vellum covers, mostly trimmed to or just outside the subject, generally in good condition, some toning and foxing to the support sheets, wear to the covers, overall in good condition (album)

Provenance:

Jean Armand Tronchin (1732-1813), Bessinge, Geneva, and Paris (not in Lugt); his bookplate (inside cover), engraved by Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1730-1809) and dated 1779, with the estate's library label and inventory number Beaux-Art grav. 7912-S1 (inside cover); then by descent. Xavier Givaudan (?-1966), Geneva, acquired as part of the Bessinge Estate, 1936; then by descent