Asia seated on a camel and holding an incense burner

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Martin de Vos (Antwerp 1532-1603)
Asia seated on a camel and holding an incense burner
inscribed 'Asia'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
10 5/8 x 7¼ in. (270 x 186 mm.)

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Another version of this drawing is in the Stedelijk Prentenkabinett, Antwerp (Il Tempo di Rubens, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 1987, no. 8B).

Lot Essay

A preliminary study for de Vos' engraving from the series of Four Continents published by Adriaen Collaert in Antwerp in circa 1588-89 (Holl. 1397). A drawing for the full composition, in the same direction as the present sheet but with the arrangement of Asia's limbs as in the engraving and with the background added, is in Darmstadt (G. Bergsträsser, Niederländische Zeichnungen 16. Jahrhundert im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 1979, no. 137). The Darmstadt drawing is dated 1588.

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