May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GEORG PENCZ
Virgil Suspended in a Basket.

Engraving, circa 1542. 56x81 mm; 2 1/4x3 1/4 inches, wide margins. A superb, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts.

With--BARTHEL BEHAM. Amor Riding a Dolphin, engraving. 33x18 mm; 1 3/8x 3/4 inches, thread margins.

We have not found another impression of this print at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 87 and 19.
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