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From Les gueux (The Beggars). Etching on laid paper without watermark 19x14 cm. 24 plates numbered in the lower right from 1 to 24, on the other hand, complete series in 24 sheets executed by Callot in 1622. Compared to the suite of 25 plates, the one representing the two pilgrims is missing. The 24 sheets are gathered with string.
Bibliography
Jules Lieure, Jacques Callot. Catalog raisonné de l'oeuvre grave. Tome I - Texte, Tome II - Planches, Revisited Edition by Alan Wofsy, San Francisco, 1989, pp. 40-45, nos. 479-503; pl. 479-503. 67555099
