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Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes300 [German]BOTHO, Konrad - 4 woodcuts. Mainz, Peter Schöffer, 1492.Folio, contemp. hand-coloured woodcuts, gothic German lettering (some brownspots). Under passe-partout.100 / 120 €302 [German]CRANACH THE ELDER, Lucas - Christ in Getsemane.Wittenberg, 1509.Woodcut, 24,8 x 17 cm, laid paper with (unidentified) watermark, unsigned(trimmed to borderline). Stuck by corners under passe-partout. Strong and clearimpression.200 / 300 €Genealogical representations of the family tree of the Sallen and Brunswick withgeneric portraits and heraldry. They served as illustrations to the «Chroneckender Sassen», printed by Schöffer in 1492 in Mainz. Schöffer was one of the mostimportant early printers and publishers – some rate him a better typographer andprinter than Gutenberg himself. He was responsible for many innovations, artistic,technical and commercial. The Chronecken der Sassen was the first Germanchronicle to be printed; it records events from 527 to 1489 AD. With nearly 600pages and hundreds of woodcuts, it was Peter Schöffer’s last major project.Ref. GW 4963. - Scheiber 3531.301 [German]CRANACH The Elder, Lucas - Book-plate of Christof Scheurl. 1511.Woodcut, 16,4 x 12,6 cm, laid paper with watermark (unidentified), unsigned(foxing, sl. toned, repaired tear). Stuck by corners under passe-partout.200 / 300 €Christ kneeling with stretched arms on Gethsemane, looking upwards towardsthe Heavens while three putti appear. Part of the «Large Passion» series (14blocks). Third state (of 3).Ref. German Hollstein VI:10.3.303 [German]DE TURRECREMATA, Johannes - Metalcut with kneelingpriest. Mainz, Johann Neumeister, 1479.Fol. 42v, laid paper, with German gothic lettering (final 2 lines trimmed). Stuckby upper corners under passe-partout.300 / 350 €A full-length female figure facing front, wearing a lush feathered hat. Firstused in a 1511 publication of Scheurl’s writings printed by Stöckel in Leipzig.As the inscription states, the arms represented are those of Christoph Scheurl’sparents, Christoph Scheurl I (1457-1519) and Helena Tucher (1462-1516). Twolines of xylographic lettering in Latin at top. Formerly attr. to Dürer.Ref. German Hollstein IV:144. - O’Dell 358 - Bartsch 291.Prov. Coll. stamp on verso.Illustration with orn. border from Johannes De Turrecremata’s «Meditationesseu Contemplationes devotissimae», publ. by Neumeister in Mainz in 1479,which included 34 metalcuts.Ref. GW M48255. - HC 15726. - Schreiber 5395.94 • ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019
Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten304 [German]DIETRICH, Christian Wilhelm Ernst - Blind beggar. 1757.Chiaroscuro woodcut, 13 x 15 cm, 21 x 27 cm (pencil notes at the bottom). Stuckby upper corners under passe-partout.200 / 250 €Second state, unnumbered and the first in chiaroscuro using two woodblocks.Ref. Linck 78.Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolf Traut) designed this denseand spectacular image on 195 woodblocks which tookthree years to cut and print, between 1515 and 1518.It was commissioned by the Holy Roman EmperorMaximilian I (r. 1486–1519) who personally took a closeinterest in its production. At over 3.5 metres tall, theincredibly detailed arch is both elaborate and immense.Maximilian harnessed the superlative skills of Germanwoodcut designers and printers to advertise hisachievements and dynastic ambition for the AustrianHabsburg family. About 700 sets of impressions wereprinted in a first edition in 1517-18, and given byMaximilian as gifts, mostly to the cities and princesof the Holy Roman Empire. A second edition of about300 copies was authorised by Archduke Ferdinand(Maximilian’s grandson and later Holy RomanEmperor) in 1526–28, and a third edition by ArchdukeCharles (Ferdinand’s son) in 1559. This impression ismost likely of the third state of 1559.Ref. Meder 251- Bartsch 138.Prov. Van Loock (Coll. stamp. Lugt 3752).307 [German]DÜRER, Albrecht - 2 woodcuts from the Apocalypse.Nuremberg, 1498-1511.Woodcuts, 39,2 x 27,1 cm, laid paper, monogrammed AD (very heavily damaged,toned, edges frayed with loss of image, several tears and holes). Stuck under passepartout200 / 250 €305 [German]DIETRICH, Christian Wilhelm Ernst - Triton fights: 3 printson 2 sheets.3 engravings, 8,5 x 14,5 cm; 8,5 x 14 cm; 8,7 x 14,7 cm, all signed «Dietricj» andthe first two dated «1763» (with wide margins). Stuck by corners under 2 passepartout.150 / 200 €Three triton fights by C.W.E. Dietrich (1712-1774), the first with two marinecreatures at the left side, the second with a Naiad in the background and thethird with flying stork.Ref. Linck 43, 44, 45 II.306 [German]DÜRER, Albrecht and his school - The Triumphal Arch ofMaximilian I. 1515-1518.Woodcut, 63,4 x 16,2 cm, laid paper (browned, old repair at bottom left andupper margin). Stuck at corners under passe-partout.400 / 500 €One of the woodcuts which formed the triumphal arch of Emperor Maximilian.This section shows two baluster columns with Ionic capitals on the right side ofthe central arch. Celebrated German artist Dürer and his team (Hans Springklee,The first woodcut represents the opening of the seventh seal and the eaglecrying ‘Woe’. In Heaven God is distributing trumpets to seven angels,underneath a crying eagle is flying towards earth, which is in chaos. Latinletterpress text on the verso. An impression from the 1498 Latin edition ofDürer’s most magnificent and best-known series of 15 woodcuts. « There wasa long tradition of Apocalypse illustrations in manuscripts, which continued inprinted books, but nothing like Dürer’s galvinising imagination had ever beenbrought to bear on the text. In previously printed Bibles, illustrations had beenput on pages along with the words, but Dürer gave precedence to the image,taking an entire large page of what he himself called a «superbook» for each ofhis fifteen subjects.» (The Metropolitan Museum New York).The second print depicts the Whore of Babylon. Clothed in a Venetian costumeand holding a cup aloft, she is mounted on a beast with seven heads, withthe destruction of Babylon in the background. From the 1511 impression withGerman letterpress text from the Revelation of St John on the verso.Ref. Meder 170, 177. - German Hollstein 170, 177. - Schoch 2001-04 II.118.ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019 • 95
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