A Mock Siege of a Fortress on the Danube & A Tournament on Horseback and Foot

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ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN TWENGER (1543-1603) & GIOVANNI GUERRA (1534-1612)
A Mock Siege of a Fortress on the Danube & A Tournament on Horseback and Foot
two etchings, 1560, on laid paper, watermarks Crossbow in Circle (similar to Briquet 750, Lucca, 1563), both very good impressions of these rare, large prints, both printing with a light plate tone and inky plate edges in places, published by Raphael Hofhalter, Vienna, 1561
Plates 385 x 495 mm. (and similar)
Sheets 410 x 520 mm. (and similar)

Literature

Nagler 493; Thieme Becker XXXIII p. 510 (Twenger)
Nagler 2981 & 2997 (Guerra)

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Lot Essay

These two etchings were published in the Thurnier Buech warhafftiger ritterlicher Thaten, so in dem Monat Junii des vergangnen LX. Jars in und ausserhalb der Statt Wienn zu Rosz und zu Fueß, auff Waser und Lannd gehalten worden, by Hanns von Francolin and published by Raphael Hofhalter in Vienna in 1561. The book describes and illustrates on seven large, folded etchings the festivities, tournaments and sham battles arranged for the future Emperor Maximilian II on occasion of the visit of his father Ferdinand I and his brother-in-law Albrecht V of Bavaria in June 1560 in Vienna.

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