PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534)
Trajan crowned by Victory
Details
MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534)
Trajan crowned by Victory
engraving, circa 1520-25, on laid paper, without watermark, a brilliant, early impression, printing richly and with great sculptural quality, trimmed to or just inside the subject, a vertical central fold partially split and repaired, the sheet thinly backed, with some skilful repairs
Sheet 287 x 435 mm.
Trajan crowned by Victory
engraving, circa 1520-25, on laid paper, without watermark, a brilliant, early impression, printing richly and with great sculptural quality, trimmed to or just inside the subject, a vertical central fold partially split and repaired, the sheet thinly backed, with some skilful repairs
Sheet 287 x 435 mm.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, Old Master Prints - A Private Collection, 26 June 1990, lot 4 (‘… a very fine rich impression of an undescribed first state before the monogram, and before some additional cross-hatching’) (£4,180).
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
Literature
Bartsch 361; Delaborde 192; Shoemaker 61
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