Eugène BLÉRY
1805 - 1887
The Birch Tree, Fontainebleau
1840
Plate from a series titled Études dessinées et gravées d’après nature
Original etching
280 × 205 mm, margins 395 × 280 mm
Fine impression, signed in pencil in the lower left and annotated with pen and brown ink eau forte pure épreuve unique, with a second signature in ink, on the right an inscription reading sc. d. nat… and the date 1840
Annotations in pencil in the lower and upper margins, foxing, small paper losses along the left border, crease and paper loss in the upper right corner, spots on the reverse side
Reference: IFF 21; Béraldi 4