Lot 174: Hendrik Goudt (1585-1630) after Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610)

Hendrik Goudt (1585-1630) after Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610)
Ceres seeking her Daughter (Bartsch, Hollstein 5)
etching with engraving, 1610, watermark Bird in a Circle, a good impression, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject on three sides, trimmed fractionally into the text below, the usual horizontal central crease faintly visible recto, some scattered white surface staining, mainly in the lower right corner, a tiny pinpoint paper flaw in the boy's upper body, another at the lower left sheet edge, two creases at the lower corners
S. 310 x 239 mm.

Unidentified, initial W dated 1696 (not in Lugt).
F. C. Gray (1790-1856) (Gray Collection Harvard College) (cf. L. 1101). Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, their duplicate stamp (cf. L. 936).

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.