Lot Essay
Boorsch, Lewis and Lewis record only one impression of the unfinished first and second states, respectively, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Albertina, Vienna.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION
Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) after Giovanni Battista Bertani (1516-1576)
The Judgement of Paris (B. 60; Boorsch & Lewis 16)
Details
Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) after Giovanni Battista Bertani (1516-1576)
The Judgement of Paris (B. 60; Boorsch & Lewis 16)
engraving, 1555, on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle under Crown (Briquet 304, B. & L. 15, dated 1552-85), a very fine impression of this rare print, the finished third, final, state, printing with good contrasts and great clarity, remarkably even for a plate of this size, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a printer’s crease through the tablet at lower left, another at upper left, a small made-up paper loss at the lower sheet edge at centre, the upper left corner made-up, two very skillfully repaired tears at the left sheet edge, a few other, minor defects at the sheet edges
S. 395 x 528 mm.
The Judgement of Paris (B. 60; Boorsch & Lewis 16)
engraving, 1555, on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle under Crown (Briquet 304, B. & L. 15, dated 1552-85), a very fine impression of this rare print, the finished third, final, state, printing with good contrasts and great clarity, remarkably even for a plate of this size, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, a printer’s crease through the tablet at lower left, another at upper left, a small made-up paper loss at the lower sheet edge at centre, the upper left corner made-up, two very skillfully repaired tears at the left sheet edge, a few other, minor defects at the sheet edges
S. 395 x 528 mm.
Provenance
With Colnaghi’s, London (their stocknumber C 34924 in pencil verso).
With Wynne Jeudwine, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.
With Wynne Jeudwine, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977.
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Please note this lot is sold framed.
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Charlie Scott
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