Rare Antique Master Print-FARMER’S FEAST-INN-TAVERN-Koedijck-Heemskerck-ca. 1730

Subject: Antique print, titled: ‘Farmer’s Feast’, Drinking, singing and revelling farmers/peasants seen through the window of an inn. One is playing a fiddle, while the central figures tries to kiss the woman beside him.

Condition: Good, given age. A horizontal crease in the image, with a pinprick hole in the middle. A little paper loss and tear in right margin, closed with acid free tape. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Mezzotint on hand laid (verge) paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 25 x 31 cm. The image size is ca. 25 x 31 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.8 x 12.2 inch. The image size is ca. 9.8 x 12.2 inch.

Part Number: 44163

Location: (PCO) Q1-136 / PCO-Expo-155

Description: Individually published master print. Dirk Koedijck made only 9 prints. As a result they are extremely scarce.Ref: Hollstein 9, 1..

Artists and Engravers: Made by Dirk Koedijck after Egbert van Heemskerck. Dirk Koedijck (Zaandam; b. 1681, active in Amsterdam 1730-32) was a Dutch mezzotint engraver and publisher.