Pietro Testa

(1612 - 1650)

from the series of Allegories of the Four Seasons. Etching, 508 x 718 (sheet). III state, with the address of the Roman publisher Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi. Cropper 82; Bartsch XX.227.39.

Clear impression on laid paper with watermark (a lily on three mountains in a double circle with the letters A and N). The sheet, with small margins beyond the platemark, shows traces of a vertical and a horizontal fold, as well as various wears, losses and tears along the edges, especially the right and left ones, restored on the verso.