GEORG PENCZ (CIRCA 1500-1550)

Estimate value
£ 700 – 1 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
ID 1250768
Lot 35 | GEORG PENCZ (CIRCA 1500-1550)
GEORG PENCZ (CIRCA 1500-1550)
Thetis and Cheiron
engraving
1543
on laid paper, watermark High Crown
a brilliant impression
printing very strongly and sharply, with great depth and much inky relief
trimmed to the platemark, fractionally into the subject in places
in very good condition
Sheet 133 x 189 mm.




Provenance

Unidentified, inscribed with letters in brown ink recto (not in Lugt).
Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (Lugt 2093, recto).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (with their stocknumber C.19509 in pencil verso).
Sam Josefowitz (1921-2015), Lithuania, Switzerland, USA and England (Lugt 6094); then by descent to the present owners.



Literature

Landau 78; Bartsch 90; Hollstein 119
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