['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. Imprime & Publie par Goupil & Cie Editeurs le 1er 8bre_Paris Londres_La Haye. Berlin_Verlag von Goupil & Co. New-York_Published by M. Knoedler.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, proof before title, 710 x 395mm. Pin hole to india lower right, outside image.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8043]  £450.00