Jan de Wael

ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Jan de Wael etching and engraving, circa 1630-1641, on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle with Crown and Letters PB (M.-H. 241), a fine, early impression of the second state (of six), with the arm completed in the fourth state overprinted, a very rare and unusual variant, printing with a light plate tone and wiping marks, with foul-biting below the nose, on the lips and in the ruff, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on three sides, the blank text border below with an extensive contemporary inscription in brown ink, in very good condition Sheet 248 x 175 mm.