Sale 17352
London
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10 December 2019
Estimate
DANIEL HOPFER (1470-1536) Heads of grotesque Animals etching, circa 1505-1536, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good, strong and clear impression of this rare print, possibly the first state (of two), before any rustmarks, with thread margins, trimmed just inside the platemark in places, a made-up paper loss at the upper right corner, another at lower right, window-mounted; together with Design for ornamented Stripes in Form of Dagger Sheaths by the same hand, etching, circa 1515, on laid paper, without watermark, a strong impression of the second, final state, with the Funck number, with thread margins above and below, trimmed on the platemark at left and right, in very good condition Sheet 84 x 138 mm. Sheet 135 x 83 mm. (2)
Provenance
Holl. 143: With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris. Acquired from the above in 2009. Holl. 141: With Olimpia Theodoli, London. Acquired from the above on 3 February 1992.
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Literature
Hollstein 143 & 141 C. Jenkins, N.M. Orenstein, F. Spira (eds.), The Renaissance of Etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art (exh. cat.), New York, 2019-20, no. 8, p. 38-9 (another impression illustrated).
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