The golden age, 1604

Engraving after a drawing by Abram Bloemaert, 44,5 x 68,6 cm.
Signed lower margin: “Nicola de Bruin Sculptor”.
With the address: “Joan van der bruggen excu. Antverpiae.”
Very fine impression with very small margins around the platemark, without any visible watermark. Nagler mentions this splendid engraving as his “Hauptblatt”.
Provenance: “Sammlung Veste Coburg”, verso with stamp (Lugt 451a).
The duplicates were sold by Boerner in 1929.

Hollstein 129 ii/iii, Wurzbach 73, Le Blanc 100,Le Blanc 3, Nagler II, p.230.