New Hollstein 170, state IV — “The signature clumsily redrawn”

New Hollstein, verbatim: “Signature clumsily redrawn (H.L. Basan workshop).” The catalogue lists impressions in Amsterdam, Budapest, London, Moscow and Paris, several of them bound into Basan albums. The British Museum's own record for its impression agrees and dates the edition to around 1810.

New Hollstein 170, p. 32, transcribed from the catalogue; the British Museum's record agrees

What to look for

• —Signature clumsily redrawn, not original
• —Associated with the Recueil published by Henri Louis Basan in Paris, around 1810
• —Frequently found bound into Basan albums
• —The catalogue lists no watermarks for this state

Signature

Present, but redrawn by a later hand.

The signature rule across all four states

Impressions recorded in state IV

• RijksmuseumRP-P-OB-286 · state confidence: strongly supported
• The British Museum1941,0327.11.3 · state confidence: strongly supported

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