Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

pen and brown ink and wash;

pen and brown and grey ink and brown and grey wash over traces of black chalk, within pen and grey ink framing lines;

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto); black chalk (verso)

etching, 1752, on laid paper, watermark three magi, a very fine, early proof impression of the first state (of two), before the plate number, printing with a rich, unevenly wiped plate tone, with various pentimenti along the left side of joseph still distinct, the subject along the right sheet edge partially uninked, with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark, in very good condition

black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, watermark ‘c e v’ over a shield

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Pen and brown ink and wash