TWO PORTRAITS: HUSAIN `ALI BEG, AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA AT THE COURT OF RUDOLPH II AND A MUGHAL PRINCESS

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Lot 74 | TWO PORTRAITS: HUSAIN 'ALI BEG, AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA AT THE COURT OF RUDOLPH II AND A MUGHAL PRINCESS
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TWO PORTRAITS: HUSAIN 'ALI BEG, AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA AT THE COURT OF RUDOLPH II AND A MUGHAL PRINCESS

AFTER THE ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BY AEGIDIUS SADELER II (CIRCA 1570-1629), ENGRAVED AFTER A PAINTING BY ESAYE LE GILLON, PRAGUE, 1601; PROBABLY DELHI, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Engraving, without watermark, a fine impression of the second state (of five), trimmed to or just outside the borderline on three sides, fractionally trimmed inside the subject at right, laid down; together with an unidentified oval portrait of a Mughal Princess, stipple engraving on paper, oval format, the verso plain

Husain 'Alibeg 7 ½ x 5 ¼in. (19.2 x 13.5cm.); mount 10 1/8 x 7 1/8in. (25.5 x 18cm.); Mughal princess 4 ¾in. (12cm.) high





Literature

F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, c. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1949, p.314.

Isabelle de Ramaix, Illustrated Bartsch: Aegidius Sadeler II, Connecticut, 1997, p. 323.
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