Etching and drypoint, 1655. 156x132 mm; 6¼x5¼ inches, small to thread margins. Usticke's only state (e), with extensive burr, notably on the top outline of the angel's wing, on Abraham's beard, on the tie around Abraham's waist, on the cloth at the left edge of the plate and to the left and below the platter, and fine horizontal wiping scratches. Ex-collection Bertrand Weber, his sale at Gutekunst und Klipstein, November 1947, lot 517; and Naudet, dated 1790 (Lugt 1937, verso). With a pencil tracing of the subject by a later hand on the verso. Bartsch 35; Biörklund 55-B; Hollstein (White and Boon) 35.
