Etching on Chine collé, 1861. 185x157 mm; 7 1/4x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Third state (of 6), with the etched signature and date lower left but before any additional text and before the beveling of the plate. A superb, dark, richly-inked and early impression with very strong contrasts and crisp plate edges.
Provenance: Otto Henry Bacher, Cleveland and New York (Lugt 2002, lower right recto); his sale Anderson Galleries, New York, March 2, 1910; sold Sotheby's, New York, November 3-4, 1988, lot 309.
