- Mounted on later board; browned; closed tear in right margin.
= What would plead for an attribution to the artist, is, first of all, that this drawing is not a direct copy after the print. There are some differences which would point towards a design for the woodcut. One of the main points is the position of the legs in the composition. They extend further than in the woodcut (even beyond the breast of the bird) and touch almost the borderline. The Rijksmuseum holds a preliminary sketch (with the composition in reverse) in which the legs extend similarly. Furthermore there are various small differences in the branches. The details in the head and the feathers in the bird's breast show a more free approach than a normal copyist would. The combined use of pen and ink, charcoal and white gouache is also not uncommon for Mankes. However, the provenance is unclear.
- Fine impression.
= Cat. Haags Gemeentemuseum (1974) 132; cat. Gemeentemuseum 's-Gravenhage (1939) 79.
- A few small vague stains.
= Cat. Haags Gemeentemuseum (1974) 137; cat. Gemeentemuseum 's-Gravenhage (1939) 81. The third and final state.
= Söhn 72711-6.
- Sm. repaired tear in right blank margin; formerly repaired w. sellotape on verso (leaving stain, shining through). Verso w. narrow strips of paper along margins, prob. from former framing.
= Verso w. stamp "envoi [w. ms. entry Matta, 1972]". ORIGINAL DESIGN for an illustration in L'Humidité. No. 10. Ed. J.-F. Bory, with the issue (Paris, l'Humidité, 1972, (20)p. (incl. wr.), ills., 4to) included in the lot.
- Upper blank margin badly dam.
AND 3 col. lithographs by Jan VOSS (2x) and Antonio SEGUI, both published by the same.
= Cramer 182.
- Sl. yellowed. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXV.
- Sl. yellowed/ discoloured in blank margins.
= Grondman 104 w. full-p. ill. (of the reduced version). The very rare large early version. Grondman p.93/95: "De 'Overhaal bij het Rijksmuseum' kan (...) tot de vroeg te dateren etsen gerekend worden (...). Van de 'Overhaal' zijn overigens twee verschillende formaten bekend. Het gaat in beide gevallen om dezelfde plaat. Deze werd echter door een brand in 1928 bij Meijers toenmalige drukker, de NV Plaatdrukkerij Roelofs en Hubner, zodanig beschadigd dat alle randen afgesneden moesten worden."
- Frame w. a few dam. spots.