Hergé - épreuve d'imprimerie Casterman N&B + annotations

Original vintage print, concerning panel No. 7 of Tintin from the color edition of the comic 'Les Cigares du Pharaon' (1955).

A single page released and officially stamped on the back by the Hergé Studio, Belgium, for the Comics Museum in Italy, which later closed.

The panel bears important and obvious notes and pre-press modifications drawn in blue pencil, used to highlight additions, probably made by the same Hergé.

From the analyses attached by the expert appraiser commissioned to verify this drawing, there appear to be areas and modifications retraced in ink.

Recently, the Hergé Foundation confirmed its provenance from the studio, and that it would be a probable pre-press test. The stamp on the back confirms its authenticity.

At the bottom left, there appears to be an erasure of what looks like a note containing technical details, or perhaps a dedication.

The board had been glued at the corners onto a black piece of cardboard; the lower part had been pried off to verify the authenticity of the stamp.

A variety of images and details are published, some scanned and others photographed.

the dimensions of this board are
40 x 28.7 cm