Auction 325: Prints | 17 May 2024
Lucas van Leyden

The poet Virgil in the basket

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Lot 172
Lucas van Leyden
1494 – Leiden – 1533
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Copperplate engraving on laid paper with watermark “Glove with jagged cuff and crown” (cf. Briquet no. 10.929). (1525). 24.5 x 19 cm (sheet size).

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Details

Bartsch VII, 409, Nr. 136; New Hollstein 136 I b (von III).

Provenienz:
Graf Franz Josef von Enzenberg (1802-1879), Innsbruck, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 845);
nicht identifizierter Sammlerstempel verso (Lugt 961).

Description

Good, even early impression, trimmed before the “Adresse Martini Petri excude” on or just inside the platemark. – With carefully closed paper defects in the margin and in the image. The lower centre edge backed and redrawn due to a small defect. The borderlines occasionally redrawn. Verso with remnants and traces of former mounting, otherwise still good.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Prints

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