"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor Alexander Brook

Alexander Brook

Swain Gifford

on smooth cream NORMANDY VELLUM paper

This print by Nisbet is not commonly seen

influenced generations of artists

"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor Alexander BrookEngraving, 1658, ed. unknown, an early state of the full plate before inscriptions and before the plate was cut down to frame the head and shoulders against the drape at left and trees at right. The image measures 13 3 16 x 9 9 16, with thread margins, on a thin grayish laid paper, with an elaborate heraldic fish watermark. There is a collectors ink monogram recto lower left corner, and various old inscriptions and hinges on the verso, a vertical