Original etching, signed on plate; Fiocco, Marco Ricci e gli incisori bellunesi del '700 e '800, Belluno 1968, cat. 19.a;
Succi Da Carlevarijs ai Tiepolo, Veneto and Friulian Engravers of the Eighteenth Century, 1983, 418;
Superb proof, crisp and well-inked, printed on a paper quite similar to the "Three Half Moons" despite having no trace of it.
Complete and with good margin all around from 5 to 23 mm.
Loening collection stamp on verso (Lugt L. 4807). On the collection Lugt reports that it was a collection assembled between the late 1800s and 1900s, not excluding that the seal was made at a later date and affixed to an existing collection formed by an ascendant of the Loening family. The native family from the area around Mannheim, initially Jewish and converted to Protestantism in 1847, has in one of its progenitors a significant publisher.
At some unspecified time, the collection was divided among the three branches of the family, and prints with this stamp have been sold on the German art market since 2000.