3407 - 4320 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES
- Small handling creases; outer blank margins sl. unevenly trimmed.
= With annot. in outer lower blank margin "Een Vrouw op een ezel. No.2. v. niet uitgegeven etsen". Not in Van Wisselingh.
- Sl. yellowed; vertical fold in left margin. = Van Wisseling 254, 100 impressions.
- Sl. yellowed. = Van Wisselingh 241, 100 impressions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE II.
- Yellowed. = Van Wisselingh 256, 100 impressions.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
- Browned; pencil sl. faded. = Van Wisselingh 135, 100 impressions.
- Browned; some small brown brush strokes. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.
= Van Wisselingh 82 and 28, both 100 impressions.
- Sl. yellowed. = Van Wisselingh 212, 100 impressions.
- Dam. spots due to silverfish, i.a. affecting monogram; sl. yellowed/ vaguely waterst.
= Van Wisselingh 218, 100 impressions; Vervoorn 24.
- Margins browned. = Van Wisselingh 204. A rare proof in black, dark strong impression.
= Van Wisselingh 251, 100 impressions.
- Yellowed; sm. hole in left part of the image. = Van Wisselingh 201, 100 impressions.
= Not in Van Wisselingh.
- Repaired tear in sky-section in left margin.
= Van Wisselingh 225, 43 impressions only. Impressive large print: "Elk van deze omvangrijke prenten heeft zijn groote verdiensten (...) Toch zijn er (...) vier onder die ook in dit voortreffelijk twaalftal excelleren (...) Het zijn de eenvoudigste, de minst overladene (...): de ingang en de trap van de Vrijdag-Moskee, Jeruzalem en Benares." (M.F. Hennus, Marius Bauer, p.29).
- Some small handling creases. Verso w. narrow strip of paper tape along upper blank margin.
= Van Wisselingh 206, 100 impressions.
- Sl. yellowed/ sl. foxed; small handling creases; upper margin tipped onto mount.
= Van Wisselingh p.160, 100 impressions: "Privately Commissioned" and "In 1925 Mr. Bauer visited the Dutch East Indies at the invitation of a Committee of the residents, which had been appointed to prepare a gift for H.M. Queen Wilhelmina and H.R.H. the Prince Consort, on the occasion of their silver wedding. At the request of this Committee the artist made (...) the three following etchings, for this special gift (...) 100 impressions were printed of each and were offered, with the copperplates, to H.M. Queen Wilhelmina, who presented sets of them to different Government and private institutions". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Handling creases and sl. foxed; verso w. some numbers in pencil/ ballpoint.
= Tipped under passepartout w. mounted ticket w. signed stamp reading "Das Notariat Davos beurkundet hiermit, dass dieses Bild aus dem Nachlass Ph. Bauknecht Davos stammt (...)" (formerly attachted to the drawing, w. sm. part of the stamp visible in lower blank margin. Provenance: Kunsthandel Monet, Amsterdam.