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After Pieter Bruegel the Elder ( circa 1525-1569) by Pieter van der Heyden ( circa 1530 - after 1569)
The Stone Operation, or The Witch of Malleghem (Bast. 193; L. 157; Holl. 38)
After Pieter Bruegel the Elder ( circa 1525-1569) by Pieter van der Heyden ( circa 1530 - after 1569) The Stone Operation, or The Witch of Malleghem (Bast. 193; L. 157; Holl. 38) engraving, 1559, with an indistinct armorial watermark, a very fine, rich impression of this rare print, Hollstein's third state (of five), printing with burr on the lower borderline and many wiping marks in the plate-margin, offsetting from a first state impression of The Alchemist (Bast. 197; L. 159; Holl. 40) after the same hand on the reverse, partially with a thread margin below, otherwise trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a few pale unobtrusive stains and some tiny rust marks, generally in very good condition S. 351 x 467 mm.