A Group of five Engravings

Details

HEINRICH ALDEGREVER (1502 - CIRCA 1561)
A Group of five Engravings
including Two Lovers, 1529, a very good impression, on a square sheet, trimmed just outside the platemark; Foot-Soldier with Fire-pan and Bucket, 1529, a very good impression, trimmed on or outside the platemark; Tendrils, in the Centre a Satyr with Ass's Ears, 1532, a very good impression, with thread margins; Eight nude Children at a Well, 1539, a very good impression, backed; Ornament Design with Fishes, 1552, a very good impression, with narrow margins, inky plate edges; all on laid paper, without watermarks, generally in good condition
Sheet 140 x 46 mm. (and smaller)
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Provenance

With W. E. Drugulin (1825-1879), Leipzig (Lugt 2612). (Holl. 174)
Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1805-1865), Klein-Oels, Silesia (Lugt 2669); his sale 2 & 3 May 1932, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, lot 140, described as Vorzüglich. (Holl. 174)
K. F. F. von Nagler (1770-1846), Bavaria and Berlin (Lugt 2529); sold as part of his collection to the state in 1835. (Holl. 283)
Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606), with their de-accession stamp (Lugt 2398); acquired from the above. (Holl. 283)
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London (with their stock number C. 14410 in pencil verso). (Holl. 283)
Another indistinct mark. (Holl. 283)

Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein, New Hollstein 173-174, 241, 267, 283.