Print Description
This print shows a view on a landscape with a shepard with cows and sheep. On the background houses and a bridge. From a series of four landscapes.
Made by Francois Collignon after Stefano della Bella.
Medium: Engraving / etching on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 10.2 cm (7.87 x 4.02 inch). Image size: 20 x 10.2 cm. (7.87 x 4.02 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Brownish. Creases. Smudges on reverse. No margin. Remains of glue in upper corners. Tiny tear restored upper margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LANDSCAPE-SHEPARD-COWS-SHEEP-ANIMAL-HOUSES-BRIDGE | RBOS-A10-32
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was at first published by Pierre Mariette (French, 1596?1657), in ca.1643.
Biography engraver: Francois Collignon (1609-1657). .
Biography artist: Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and several thousand drawings, but only one known painting. .
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