Two Friends
 

Please take a look at this picture.


France?
Artist on such trivia, I think, is not determined, but a period of about?
18 century?

Paper thin, no inscriptions on the reverse.

Size: 24H17


I would be grateful for any information.

Or maybe three comrades?
Verneuil Musketeers.
:) "probably a fragment.

Possibly a fragment of pages of the book, ie book illustration.

Have you ever convinced that this is not a reproduction?

Good question.
 
Do not tell whether the method is how to distinguish the old pattern of reproduction (book illustration)?

I can remove the paper from the frame and photograph the back side, if it helps to clarify something.

PEACE, Look at the picture at high magnification, with a good magnifying glass.

If it is printed - you can see the raster, ie,
dots that make up the image.
If the picture - that, therefore, it will be a line.

Good luck!
:)

Dear Eriksson!

Following your advice (thank you), here's what happened.

Took the paper from the frame. Was not thin, and thick, not flexible, visible fibers.
Apologies for the incorrect information in the first post.

On the back of the inscription is quite murky, but is now evident that it is partially leaked on the obverse.
Looks like someone's name.
Here are some photos, one through a magnifying glass.

I would like to hear the impression of a professional.

This figure .. It remains to determine the authorship ...

Above is read as a Bud would have a name - H (N) ikola ...

This is only true if the offset printing. In addition to offset up to relatively recently, there were a number of other printing techniques that do not use a raster (intaglio printing, photoengraving, zincography, etc.) for reprodutsirovniya images in industrial mastshtabah. Not to mention the large number of intrinsic artistic printing techniques (lithography, etching, woodcut, etc.).
My tediousness has only one purpose: to say that lack of a raster in the image does not guarantee its uniqueness.
On this same special case shows that, most likely this figure, although it may lithography (method must be visible characteristic melkotochechnaya lithographic stone structure, but not regular, like a screen, and as if imitating a feather on the rough paper)

If the paper is the 18 th century., It must exist filigree.
Even if the lattice through.
The inscription was not able to read it.