- Somewhat foxed; ample margins frayed and first print w. closed tear and hole in left blank margin.

= Bartsch 36 and 37. Part of a series of theatrical backdrops. "They were made as illustrations to the musical pastoral fable 'La sincerità trionfante' 1639 (libretto by Ottaviano Castellil and music by Angelo Cecchini) commissioned by François-Annibal d'Estrées, Marchese di Coeuvres on occasion of the birth of the Dauphin (future Luis XIV)" (British Museum). On laid paper with watermark showing a fleur-de-lis on top of a triple hill and with monogram AN, all within a double circle.

Gimignani, G. (1611-1681). (Semiramis leaving her toilette to quell a revolt). Etching, 19,7x27,4 cm., w. the address of Domenico de Rossi, Rome, (1647).

- Vertical fold; brown offsetting in left blank margin, from paper remnant on verso. = Bartsch 22, 2nd state.

AND 4 others.