"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor on cream wove paper with

on cream wove paper with large side margins

Alexander Brook

influenced generations of artists

She was fascinated with evolution and diversity of life

a crisp and detailed impression of this fine angling image by Schaldach

"Victor LeBoutillier: Archeveque de Tours" by Claude Mellan, Fr., (1598-1688) Watercolor on cream wove paper withEngraving, 1658, ed. unknown, an early state of the full plate before inscriptions and before the plate was cut down to frame the head and shoulders against the drape at left and trees at right. The image measures 13 3 16 x 9 9 16, with thread margins, on a thin grayish laid paper, with an elaborate heraldic fish watermark. There is a collectors ink monogram recto lower left corner, and various old inscriptions and hinges on the verso, a vertical