Details
Georg Pencz (1500-1550)
Portrait of Johann Friedrich I (The Magnanimous), Elector of Saxony (B. 126; Holl. 77)
engraving, 1543, a very good impression, with thread margins or trimmed on or just outside the platemark (trimmed fractionally into the subject at the top), a horizontal drying fold, one or two horizontal printer's creases, small brown stains on the Elector's right arm and at the upper and lower left sheet corners, other minor defects
S. 400 x 310mm.
Portrait of Johann Friedrich I (The Magnanimous), Elector of Saxony (B. 126; Holl. 77)
engraving, 1543, a very good impression, with thread margins or trimmed on or just outside the platemark (trimmed fractionally into the subject at the top), a horizontal drying fold, one or two horizontal printer's creases, small brown stains on the Elector's right arm and at the upper and lower left sheet corners, other minor defects
S. 400 x 310mm.
Provenance
John Cantacuzene (?), initials J.C. in black, verso