May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
HANS LAUTENSACK
Georg Roggenbach.

Etching, 1554. 346x243 mm; 13 5/8x9 1/8 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2). Crowned double-headed eagle watermark. Ex-colelction the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5d, verso); and Moriz von Kuffner, Vienna and Zurich (not in Lugt). A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce, large portrait etching.

Roggenbach (1517-1581) was a Nuremberg lawyer and civic leader. Bartsch 9.