Antique Master Print-STORY OF TOBIAS-DEPARTURE OF THE ANGEL-de Vos-1585

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: double cross of lorraine.

Sheet size: 35 x 26.3 cm (13.78 x 10.35 inch). Image size: 29.4 x 20.4 cm. (11.57 x 8.03 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Wide margins. Small tear on bottom paper edge. Paper loss in bottom right corner margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

STORY OF TOBIAS-DEPARTURE OF THE ANGEL | PCO-A56-04

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

No. 6 from a series of 6 published by Gerard de Jode in ‘Thesaurus’ 1585.

State: 1 (2).

Reference: Hollstein Maarten de Vos 171.

Early edition.

Biography artist: Maarten de Vos (1532-1603), Antwerp-born painter and designer, prolific draftsman for religious series, whose work influenced a generation of Northern printmakers.