State atlas · New Hollstein 170

New Hollstein 170, state II — “The jaw clearly delineated”

New Hollstein, verbatim: “The jaw under the left ear clearly delineated. A few lines added to the shadow of the nose, under the right eye.” The catalogue then notes “White & Boon only state” — that is, the single state recognised by White & Boon corresponds to this one. By far the most numerous state: the catalogue lists something over sixty impressions across more than forty collections, several of them retouched by later hands with pen, brush and grey ink.

New Hollstein 170, p. 31, transcribed from the catalogue; the British Museum's “second state with jaw delineated” agrees

What to look for

The jaw under the left ear clearly delineated
A few lines added to the shadow of the nose, under the right eye
Signature and date still present
Papers recorded for this state include Arms of Bristol, Arms of Ravensburg, Basel crosier, Basilisk (c. 1640–47), Foolscap and its variants, and Strasbourg lily

Signature

Present in the plate. Not clearly legible in the catalogue's reproduction of 170/II, which is a richly inked impression — so the reproductions cannot be used to separate state II from state III on the signature alone.

The signature rule across all four states

Impressions recorded in state II

Harvard Art Museums / Fogg MuseumG4910 · state confidence: strongly supported
National Gallery of Art1943.3.7201 · state confidence: strongly supported
National Gallery of Victoria19-4 · state confidence: strongly supported
RijksmuseumRP-P-OB-285 · state confidence: strongly supported
Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)KKSgb5223 · state confidence: strongly supported
The British Museum1910,0212.376 · state confidence: strongly supported
The British MuseumF,4.25 · state confidence: strongly supported
The Morgan Library & MuseumRvR 24 · state confidence: strongly supported
Bonhams (sale 27424, lot 2, London, 13 December 2022) · state confidence: probable

11 impressions in the census have no state recorded and appear on no state page.

NP-RMB-001 is reported as state III and is unconfirmed. The object record.

Comparator images

An impression recorded in state II, held by Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-285Copyright: Public domain — the object page's "Acquisition and rights" block gives "Copyright / Public domain", hyperlinked to https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.en (Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0). The page carries a "Download image" control and the object's Micrio record is flagged isDownloadable: true.

An impression recorded in state II, held by National Gallery of Art, Washington — National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1943.3.7201Users may download and reproduce—free of charge and without seeking authorization from the National Gallery—any digital image of a work in our collection that the we believe is in the public domain. These digital images are being released by the National Gallery under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). (Open data record for this image: openaccess = 1.)