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Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten
328 [German]
VON BEMMEL, Peter - 5 landscape etchings. Regensburg,
Heinrich Johan Ostertag, 1711-25.
Etchings, 13,8 x 18,6 cm, laid paper, signed in plate at upper left corner (trimmed
just outside platemark, some prints sl. toned). Mounted together under passe-partout.
800 / 1.000 €
On the right, the Virgin kneels on a carpet and turns her head towards Gabriel
who kneels on the left. A later impression.
Ref. Lehrs V.1. - German Hollstein 1. - Bartsch VI.120.3
Prov. Coll. stamp (Lugt 3751).
327 [German]
After Israel VAN MECKENEM - St Barbara.
Engraving, 16,2 x 11 cm, laid paper (no watermark), monogr. at lower edge
(toned, min. foxing, trimmed to framing line, old traces of glue on verso). Stuck
under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
Rare complete set of 5 German landscape etchings.
Ref. Andresen 1-5. - Meyer, Algemeines Künstler Lexicon, 1872-1885:5.
329 [German]
WOLGEMUT, Michael - Christ and Martha / The healing of
Lazarus. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1491.
2 woodcuts, 25,3 x 17,4 cm, laid paper (sm. wormhole at upper left centre, some
stains, trimmed to borderline). Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout. Good
impressions.
750 / 750 €
Unidentified later copy of engraving by Van Meckenem. St. Barbara standing by
a tower while holding a chalice and a palm leaf in her hands.
Ref. German Hollstein 393 . - Lehrs IX:393. - Bartsch VI:122.
With woodcuts on recto and verso, the sheet represents an interior scene with
Christ in the house of Mary and Martha. The verso depicts the exorcism of the
Devil and the healing of Lazarus. The woodcuts are illustrations to Stephan
Frigolin’s «Der Schatzbehalter», printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger.
Printed and illustrated at around the same time as the famous Weltchronik, the
«Schatzbehalter» contains a set of 96 woodcuts designed by Michel Wolgemut
and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.
Ref. ISTC is00306000. - GW 10329. - Polain(B) 1521. - Bartsch 87. - Richard
Bellm, «Der Schatzbehalter - Ein Andachts- und Erbauungsbuch aus dem Jahre
1491», Berlin, 1962.
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