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Each signed and numbered and with a blind stamp (paraffin lamp). Published by Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels 1978/79. Copy 9/20. With a certificate by Charles Van Deun, Fondation Paul Delvaux, Sint-Idesbald, 30 January 1982. - 12 of the 16 sheets are stamped with the confirmation "Ce cachet certifie l'authenticité de cette gravure exécutée d'après un dessin. Les gravures sont rehaussées à l'acquarelle par P. Delvaux et Ch. Van Deun." on lower edge of the image, 10 sheets are also stamped on the reverse. In 1948, Paul Delvaux made a series of drawings illustrating "Le Pays des Miroirs", a volume of stories by the Belgian dramatist Claude Spaak (1904-1990). However, the volume was never published in an illustrated edition, and the drawings were first printed in 1978/79 in the form of etchings made for the Brussels gallery Isy Brachot. These etchings were coloured with watercolours after the originals by Paul Delvaux and his nephew Charles Van Deun, who was later to become chairman of the Fondation Paul Delvaux. The sheets are titled as follows: La Morte; L'Orage; Le Laid; Les Derniers Beaux Jours; Le Blessé; Le Cabinet d'Anatomie; La Mort en Chemin; Le Grenier; Le Rêveur; La Cheminée; Le Balcon; Femme et Bustier; L'Apparition; Le Palais Royal; Le Salon; Le Laboratoire. Mostly 37.8 x 29.9 cm (76/77 x 56.5/57.2 cm)