Lot Essay
Another impression of this print is in the British Museum. Its companion piece, The Dance of Foolish Women (Holl. 21), is known in two impressions, at Coburg and at Wolfegg.
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Stultorum Chorea - The Dance of the Fools
Details
Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)
Stultorum Chorea - The Dance of the Fools
etching with engraving, 1550-1600, on laid paper, countermark NR, a very good, strong impression of this extremely rare print, trimmed to or just outside the borderline, two vertical printer's creases at centre, a small paper loss and associated short tear at the lower right corner, a 10 mm. tear at the left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition
S. 321 x 523 mm.
Stultorum Chorea - The Dance of the Fools
etching with engraving, 1550-1600, on laid paper, countermark NR, a very good, strong impression of this extremely rare print, trimmed to or just outside the borderline, two vertical printer's creases at centre, a small paper loss and associated short tear at the lower right corner, a 10 mm. tear at the left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition
S. 321 x 523 mm.
Literature
Hollstein 41; New Hollstein 20
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