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CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Capricci di varie...

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CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Capricci di varie figure. Nancy, 1621. A famous series produced in Florence in 1617 and dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, brother of Grand Duke Cosimo II, which was immediately successful and subsequently reissued by Callot in Nancy in 1621, shortly after his return to France. Copper engraving, (60 x 90 mm). 50 plates including title-page and engraved dedication, in the first or only state of two of the Nancy edition avant le chiffre (with the exception of 4 plates which are in the only state of the Florentine edition of 1616, and a plate depicting the duellists which is not original). Trimmed and mounted on modern cardboard. (1)