- Dark strong impression,
= Hollstein 50, 3rd state of 6. "The advice by [the engraver F.] Basan to young engravers, to copy the style of Cornelis Visscher, was widely followed, the rat-catcher favoured by many later engravers as the model for Visscher's oeuvre." (Hollstein).
- On paper with large Amsterdam coat of arms watermark. Tipped onto mount.
= Hollstein 50, 1st state (of 2). From the series Landscapes (four upright plates).
Vrijdag, Daniel (1765-1822). The rat-catcher. Large engraving after Cornelis VISSCHER, 30,6x35,4 cm., w. "d. Vrijdag na C. Visscher, 1787" engr. below, on thick wove paper.
- Vague diagonal fold; tipped onto mount. = Holstein 50, conform copy b.
Vliet, Johannes van (act. ±1628-1637). St. Jerome kneeling in prayer. Etching after REMBRANDT van Rijn, 36,2x28,7 cm., "RHL.v.Rijn inv. J.G.v.Vliet fec. 1631" in the plate.
- Attached to mount along right margin. Trimmed to/ just within the borderline; thin/ rubbed spots in lower right corner.
= Hollstein 13, 1st state (of 2).
AND 3 other miscell. prints.
- First print w. wide margins on 17th cent. laid paper w. crowned coat of arms watermark showing 2 opposing lions rampant; 2nd print trimmed just outside the platemark, somewhat grey impression; verso soiled; third print cut ±0,5 cm. outside the platemark, laid paper w. Amsterdam coat of arms watermark, leaf sl. soiled and w. shallow creases.
= Hollstein 11 and 12, first and only state, and 18, 3rd state of 3. First and 2nd print with the collector's mark of Albert van den Briel (Lugt 407a).
- 19th cent. impression. = Hollstein 80, the 6th and final state.
AND 4 other etchings from the same series, all 6th and final state: Hollstein 74-77.
- Folded once.
= Anonymous copy after Raphael Sadeler. Part of the series of 4 allegorical prints, also representing the Ages of Man. Janssen, Grijsaards in zwart en wit, p.98-100, ill. 38; cf. Hollstein (R. Sadeler) 209; Hollstein (De Vos) 1465.