76/5621 Ostade, A. van (1610-1685). The spectacle seller. Etching, 1646, 10,2x8,6 cm.

- Formerly under passepartout w. remnants of paper tape along margins on verso; with part of an unidentified watermark.

= Hollstein 29/ Godefroy, the 2nd (or 3rd) state (of 6) (before the light and fine nearly vertical lines on the light side of the pedlar's basket (4th state) and before the rounding of the plate corners (3rd state), but after the reworked borderline (3rd state)). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.