Author: ROSA, Salvator.- Soldier.- Engrs.-
Title: Copperengraving of a soldier leaning on a staff, looking into the water of a stream.
Description: Copperengraving by Salvator Rosa. Signed in lower lefthand side intertwined reverse S & R. Meas. appr. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Early 17th c. Cut within plate marks. On reverse of print in ink 'No 5' Salvator Rosa Naples 1615 - Rome 1673. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, vol. V, item 266, depicting 10 'signatures', the first one similar to the signature in this print, see pp. 49 - 53, containing a supplement to Bartsch's Peintre Graveur of prints numbered 87 - 110: Bartsch Peintre Graveur, ?: LeBlanc, vol. III, pp. 359 - 360, items 89 - 104 'Diverses pièces ... la plupart représentent des guerriers.':

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