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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
HIERONYMOUS COCK (CIRCA 1517 / 18-1570) POSSIBLY AFTER MATTHIJS COCK (CIRCA 1510 / 5-1548)
Two Plates, from: Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological scenes
Details
HIERONYMOUS COCK (CIRCA 1517 / 18-1570) POSSIBLY AFTER MATTHIJS COCK (CIRCA 1510 / 5-1548)
Two Plates, from: Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological scenes
two etchings, from a series of twelve, 1558
on laid paper, watermark small Fleur-de-Lys (Briquet 6998)
including:
Judah and Tamar, a very fine, dark impression, printing with much plate tone, intense contrasts and inky relief;
Leander swimming through the Hellespont, a very, fine luminous impression, printing with plate tone;
both sheets with margins, a stain in the left margin, a few tiny holes, generally in very good condition
Plate 225 x 323 mm., Sheet 254 x 340 mm. (Hollstein 9)
Plate 226 x 304 mm., Sheet 254 x 333 mm. (Hollstein 16)(2)
Two Plates, from: Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological scenes
two etchings, from a series of twelve, 1558
on laid paper, watermark small Fleur-de-Lys (Briquet 6998)
including:
Judah and Tamar, a very fine, dark impression, printing with much plate tone, intense contrasts and inky relief;
Leander swimming through the Hellespont, a very, fine luminous impression, printing with plate tone;
both sheets with margins, a stain in the left margin, a few tiny holes, generally in very good condition
Plate 225 x 323 mm., Sheet 254 x 340 mm. (Hollstein 9)
Plate 226 x 304 mm., Sheet 254 x 333 mm. (Hollstein 16)(2)
Provenance
Unidentified, numbered '31' in pen and brown ink verso (not in Lugt). (both)
Literature
Hollstein 9 & 16
J. van Grieken, G. Luijten, J. van der Stock, Hieronymous Cock - The Renaissance in Print, New Haven & London, 2013, no. 94 (another impression illustrated).
J. van Grieken, G. Luijten, J. van der Stock, Hieronymous Cock - The Renaissance in Print, New Haven & London, 2013, no. 94 (another impression illustrated).
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