Antique Print-WILLEM BARON RIPPERDA-PORTRAIT-Nolpe-1644

Original antique print showing a portrait of Willem, Baron Ripperda, Lord of Hengelo, Boekelo, Boxbergen, Rijsenburg and Solmsburg (1600 – 1669), an ambassador at the peace conferences of Osnabruck and Munster which ended both the Thirty Years’ War in Germany and the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Netherlands.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving/etching on Hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 13.3 x 20.4 cm (5.24 x 8.03 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Some small tears at top paper edge. Bottom corners slightly remargined. Paper thin at top right, backed. Verso: remaons of paper from attachment. Narrow margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

WILLEM BARON RIPPERDA-PORTRAIT | PCO-C45-23

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in the Netherlands 1644.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch 51-1(2).

Biography engraver: Pieter Nolpe (1613-1653), Dutch printmaker; publisher/printer.