a John SMITH – Nicola Cosimi, 1708

Chaloner Smith No. 61 (I/II). Superb impression of the first state (of two). Two tiny tears along the edges. Thread margins. From an unidentified collection (Lugt 1842), possibly B. Molewater (+1727). From an unidentified collection (Lugt No. 1388, primarily portraits). From the T. Graf collection (Lugt no. 1092a). Born in 1667 in Loreto, Nicola Cosimi was an Italian composer and virtuoso violinist. He died in 1717.