Rembrandt Etchings from Jan Luyken Book of Trades 'Het Menselyk Bedryf'

Rectangular vellum leaf with hand-coloured composite scene: top left, Mary in blue mantle holding infant Jesus on her knee, addressing a standing robed figure, red Coptic text above 'How the man with a club foot prayed to Our Lady Mary that she might heal him when he saw the bishop's chastisement'; below left, six standing male figures in colourful robes looking left and a seventh turned to the right with an oversized shoe, red Coptic text above the group 'these are the congregation and this is how he hid his foot with his clothing' and the rightmost figure 'this also is the man with the club foot'; right, seated cleric wearing a mitre beneath a canopy, addressing a group of five followers and pointing to a standing man raising his robe to show his leg, red Coptic text in three panels 'Here is the bishop who asked the Frank that his foot might be healed', 'These are the congregation' and 'How he was healed and how the stone fell from his foot'; mounted in a glazed wooden frame with reveal. 1.88 kg total, 47.2 x 44 cm



Collection of David Buxton (1913-2003), author of 'Travels in Ethiopia', 1949.

The image refers to the 'Miracle of the Lame Man' in which a man, who had been born lame, prayed before the shrine of the Virgin Mary and was healed. Here, the lame man shows the Archbishop his leg, and explains how he had been healed.

Modelled in the round figure of a male wearing a short-sleeved tunica and with a toga draped carefully around the body; seated on a bench with a cushion, and with the folds of the toga arranged to the sides and rear; scroll in the right hand; mounted on a substantial marble base. 4.6 kg total, 24.5 cm including stand



Old collection of M.A. From the estate of Mr William Nicholas Roos, c. 1980. with Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, USA, 5 December 2010. Property of a French collector.

Including terracotta zebu, standing idol and other types; after the antique. 1.27 kg total, 8.5-19 cm



From various auction houses since circa 2005. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.