- Signature etc. sl. faded; sl. yellowed; sl. foxed/ stained in blank margins; verso traces of former mounting.
= Verbeek 45: "De vroegste drukken zijn licht en zonder veel contrast. De latere zijn zwaarder [our copy]. Vooral de wolken zijn dan meer geprononceerd, zonder dat er van een verschil in staat sprake is"; cat. Jan Toorop in Katwijk aan Zee, no.53; cat. J.Th. Toorop, De jaren 1885 tot 1910, no.89; cat. Jan Toorop (Haags Gemeentemus. 1989), no.76; Hefting, Jan Toorop, een kennismaking, p.108-109; cat. Van Gogh tot Mondrian, Dutch Works on Paper, no.70: "Towards the end of the 1880s, Katwijk aan Zee, then still a simple fishing village without paved streets or sewers, started to attract the attention of artists and literati. Over the next ten years the village would develop into a fairly stylish seaside resort. The Toorops lived in Katwijk from 1890 to 1892, and some of Jan Toorop's works show that he revisited the village a few times in 1889 [sic]. Many years later, in April 1899, Toorop and his family returned to Katwijk, and later that year they moved into the house-cum-studio 'De Schuur' designed by H.P. Berlage. In 1904 the family would leave Katwijk for good". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.
= Verbeek 64; cat. Jan Toorop in Katwijk aan Zee, no.63: "Deze schelpenvisser draagt zijn net met beugel over de schouder. Hij heeft lieslaarzen of wel 'hoze' aan en een jas, waaruit blijkt dat Toorop de ets in de winter moet hebben gemaakt"; Hefting, Jan Toorop, een kennismaking, p.140. Also published as appendix to the Dutch de luxe edition of the 1918 Wendingen issue on Toorop (Le Coultre 1-(11/)12 D.4). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.
= Provenance: the collection of Johan Deumens.
= Probably deluxe copies, because of the lack of the numbering and the vellum sheets.
- Foxed/ browned in blank margins (some offsetting).
= Taillaert 43, one of the 10 numbered copies (?) printed in 1921, but this copy not numbered; Desmedt 14 (printed in brown, green and yellow). "Het ondeugend thema is typisch voor Tytgat: het schenken van het boeket moet de begeerte verbloemen." Rare.
- Yellowed; pinpoint holes in outer blank corners.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's stamp on verso.
Idem. (Church bell). Etching, 20x15,2 cm.
- Verso remains of former mounting along outer margins.