The Whore of Babylon, from: The Apocalypse

The condition of lots can vary widely and the nature of the lots sold means that they are unlikely to be in a perfect condition. Lots are sold in the condition they are in at the time of sale.

In addition to the catalogue description:
- with narrow margins on three sides, trimmed to or just inside the borderline at right.
- the left sheet edge very skilfully remargined, with the borderline occasionaly made up in pen and ink.
- the lower and upper right sheet edges partially, skilfully remargined and the borderline made up with pen and ink in places.
- the lower right corner made up.
- a tiny made-up paper loss at upper right.
- a few small, skilfully repaired paper splits in places, most noticeably on some heads of the beast and across the whore's chest, a few shorter splits at the upper right sheet edge, skilfully repaired.
- a short skilfully repaired tear at the upper left sheet edge.
- a few pale stains in places, some stray blue pigment at lower and lower left centre.
- some pale stains and foxmarks visible only verso.
- a small skinned area repaired and made up with facsimile text verso, affecting four lines of left column of text
- a similar repaired loss in the text afecting the beginning of three lines of text of the right column and a few words below.
- a few words of text verso retouched in pen and ink.
- unidentified initials Ve(?) in pen and brown ink and inscribed Andrea del Sarto in pen and ink verso.
Otherwise as described.