Spitzel (Gabriel)

male and female in 18th century dress, both with hunting dogs, the man with a falcon, representing Venus and Adonis, with quotes in Latin and German from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, below,

mezzotints printed in blue on laid paper, each c.305 x 250 mm. (12 x 9 7/8 in), both trimmed to image and text field, each with a soft horizontal fold, the flconry figure with a small surface repair upper right, and a short repaired tear in the text, the female figure with a few small pin holes in the text field, all barely discernible,