Etching, 1553. 191x290 mm; 7 1/2x11 1/2 inches, thread margins. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early landscape etching.
We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
Lautensack (1524-circa 1560) was among the earliest printmakers to create pure landscape etchings. He carried on a landscape etching legacy initiated by Albrecht Altdorfer from some 30 years earlier, culminating in some of the finest, most fluid landscape prints of the 16th century, before the theme was taken up again by Rembrandt in the 1640s. Bartsch 25; Hollstein 15.
