Vaisseau du premier rang, Troisieme Figure de la Coupe d’un. Three-master together with two boats in sectional elevation to the left, with multiple character (upper & lower case) and number keys. Colored engraving by Jacques Philippe Lebas (1707 Paris 1783). Inscribed: Tome III. Page 198. / Gravé par J. P. Le Bas., otherwise as above. Subject size 13.8 x 16.9 cm.

Two smoothed-out longitudinal folds, right in the margin area outside of the representation box pleat in the paper. – Trimmed within the wide platemark, but unessential as 0-9-1.6 cm white margin around.

“ (Le Bas) deserves an excellent place among the artists who have distinguished themselves by taste. His engravings are first delicately etched, then finished with the chisel fine and often imperceptibly, however. The treatment is ingenious, and it even provides mediocre works with life and charm. He is the first after Rembrandt who frequently used the dry-point … ”

(Nagler I, 309).
Offer no. 28,830 / EUR  290. / Export price EUR  276. (c. US$ 415.) + shipping