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Coastal landscape, landing place for fishing boats, an ancient tower, wayfarers, in the background grazing cattle
Content of the inscription: Numbered on plate: '2';
man of letters with production details: 'Perelle In et fecit', and the publisher: 'Drevet avec privilege'
Seventeenth-century edition on laid paper with watermark in very good condition, with large margins beyond the plate, the binding holes can still be seen
From private collection
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
The Perelle are a famous family of French landscape engravers, active during the 17th century. The father, Gabriel, often availed himself of the collaboration of his sons: and it is not easy, on the sole basis of the descriptions of the ancient sources, to distinguish the three different hands;
Plate 1 from an unidentified series. (cited British Museum) 66599641