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A Bacchanal with Silenus (B. 20; Hind 3; Martineau 75)
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Andrea Mantegna (1431-1503)
A Bacchanal with Silenus (B. 20; Hind 3; Martineau 75)
engraving with drypoint, early 1470s, on laid paper, watermark Small Circle (Martineau 1; similar to Briquet 2925-7), a later impression of this rare and important engraving, probably printed in France around 1540, an unusually large sheet for this print, showing the irregular, curved platemark at the sides and partially below, trimmed into the platemark but well outside the subject above, some pale foxing, a tiny paper loss at the upper sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition
S. 328 x 458 mm.
A Bacchanal with Silenus (B. 20; Hind 3; Martineau 75)
engraving with drypoint, early 1470s, on laid paper, watermark Small Circle (Martineau 1; similar to Briquet 2925-7), a later impression of this rare and important engraving, probably printed in France around 1540, an unusually large sheet for this print, showing the irregular, curved platemark at the sides and partially below, trimmed into the platemark but well outside the subject above, some pale foxing, a tiny paper loss at the upper sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition
S. 328 x 458 mm.
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