GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
322 [German]
Monogrammist IC. After Martin SCHONGAUER - 2
engravings from Passion series. 1500-1530.
Engravings, 16,5 x 11,7 cm, signed in the plate at the lower margin (trimmed to
borderlines, the Arrest in the Garden is underlaid with 19th-c. paper, some print
grain). Under passe-partout. Good, dark impressions.
150 / 200 €
(trimmed to platemarks, sl. worn around edges). Later grey impression. Ref.
German Hollstein 137.1. - Bartsch 88. - 3. The three Marys at the tomb. From
series «The Life of Christ» (26 pl.). Engraving 1535-1536, 3,9 x 5,9 cm, signed in
plate with monogram at lower left corner (trimmed short within borderlines).
Later grey impression of 1st state. Ref. German Hollstein 59. - Bartsch 46. - 4.
Paris and Oenone. Engraving, 1539, 12 x 7,8 cm, Signed with monogram at
lower right (trimmed to borderline). Good uniform impression, superior to BM
copy. Ref. German Hollstein 123. - Bartsch 72. (4 pcs)
324 [German]
SCHEDEL, Hartman - Folio from Liber chronicarum.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493.
Woodcut, 45 x 31 cm, laid paper, gothic Latin text and 9 contemp. hand-coloured
woodcuts (sm. min stains at edges, sm. crease at upper left corner). Under passepartout.
300 / 400 €
The «Arrest in the Garden» and the «Resurrection». Rare cont. copies of the
Monogrammist IC, after the popular «Passion series» (2 of 12 pl.) of Martin
Schongauer.
Ref. German Hollstein 20b and 30b.
Prov. Max Egon, Fürst zu Fürstenberg. - Baron Adalbert von Lanna (old coll.
stamps L. 2811 & L. 2773)
323 [German]
PENCZ, Georg - 4 engravings with biblical and mythological
subjects. Nuremberg, 1541.
Various sizes and conditions. Stuck under passe-partout.
300 / 400 €
Folio 198 from first Latin edition of the famous Nuremberg Chronicle,
which includes woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm
Pleydenwurff. The large woodcut in the upper left corner depicts a witch on
horseback with the devil.
Ref. ISTC is00307000. - GW M40784. - Goff S-307. - Polain 3469. - A. Wilson,
The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). - C. Reske, Die Produktion der
Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (2000).
325 [German]
SCHÖFFER, - 2 woodcuts with herbs. Augsburg & Mainz, 1485.
Various sizes and editions. Under passe-partout.
200 / 250 €
Hand-coloured woodcuts, illustrating Johann von Cube’s «Gart der Gesundheit»,
first published in Mainz in 1485. This was the first medical treatise on herbs
printed in German. Fol. 341 from the first edition, publ. by Peter Schöffer. Fol.
231 from second edition of 1485, publ. by. Hans Schönsperger in Augsburg.
German gothic lettering.
Ref. ISTC ig00097000. - GW MO09766. - Schreiber 4332.
1. Solomon’s judgement. From series «Stories of the Old Testament». Engraving,
1529-1533, 5 x 7,5 cm, signed in plate with monogram at upper left (trimmed just
within borderlines). Good dark impression. Ref. German Hollstein 16 . - Bartsch
23. - 2. The punishment of Virgil’s mockstress. From series «Story of Virgil».
Engraving, 1541, 6 x 8,3 cm, signed in plate with monogram at lower centre
326 [German]
SCHONGAUER, Martin - Annunciation. Colmar, [1470-1490].
Engraving, 16,2 x 11,7, laid paper (heavy repairs on verso, sm. vert. fold at left
side, toned, sm. section in lower left corner overdrawn in pen and black ink).
Stuck by corners under passe-partout.
350 / 500 €
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