Print Description
Original master print, titled: ‘Het Breistertje (Girl Knitting)’. It shows a knitting girl standing in a doorway. A basket and net hang to her side, a small flowering tree is left of her.
Made by Johann Wilhelm (Jan Willem) Kaiser after Jozef Israels.
Medium: etching and stipple engraving on wove paper.
Sheet size: 39 x 48.5 cm (15.35 x 19.09 inch). Image size: 33 x 42 cm. (12.99 x 16.54 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Entire margins with remains of binding. The image in excellent condition. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
KNITTING GIRL-HET BREISTERTJE | DP-B1-14
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original antique master print. Our definition of a Master Print is a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters. Engraved by Kaiser after a painting by Israels, in c.1870. .
Biography engraver: Johann Wilhelm (Jan Willem) Kaiser (1813-1900) was a Dutch artist and engraver. Little is known of his works but book illustrations. He is, however, known in the philatelic world as the designer of the first Dutch stamp, as well as other early stamps.
Biography artist: Jozef Israels (1824-1911) was a Dutch painter, seen as the ‘most respectable artist’ of the second half of the 19th century.
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