Forty-one from
a series of fifty plates (including a title and a
dedication) from the second series engraved by Callot
when he came back to Nancy in 1621.
A first series was engraved on relatively soft copper
plates, on 1617. Details were rapidly lost and the set
gave very few good impressions. Callot engraved a second
'Capricci' series when he came back to Nancy (1621)
using hard copper plates. The two series are almost
identical and many sets today actually mix plates from
both series. The most obvious difference is that the
plates from the Nancy series were numbered in the second
state. The smaller differences are described in detail
in Lieure's & Meaume's catalogues.
| Les Caprices | Second series, first state ( I / II ) |
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L.428 ( II / III ) |
L.429 ( II / III ) |
