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Condizione: Good. Etching on handmade laid paper with an intact fleur-de-lys watermark. 8 x 10 7/8 inches (203 x 275 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Several expert repairs visible on verso, including a 1.5 x 1 inch archival paper patch at top center sheet edge, and several other expertly repaired small areas of skinning along lower quadrant sheet edges. One minor spot of light brown foxing in center left sheet area, verso. All issues are generally invisible on recto.…

Allegory of the Vecht river (left foreground) with other figures such as Apollo, Mercury, and Abundance. In the background a topographic view of the surroundings of the river, with Utrecht on the left.Titled on the monument: Vechtae fundis, villis, praetoriis, atque priscis arcibus triumphantis, tabula exquisitissima.Signed below: A de Lairesse inv / A van der Laan fecit.Used as decorative frontispiece in the set of illustrations representing the villages where the river goes by, titled: De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende = La triomphante riviere de Vecht, remonstrant diverses veu?es des lieux de plaisances & maisons seignorales & villages; commenc?ant de Uitrecht & finissant avec Muyden, published by Claes Jansz. Visscher III in 1719. Etching and engraving on paper, mounted on paper; cut on plate mark, total: 330 x 215 mm; in good condition. …