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HIERONYMUS HOPFER (AFTER DÜRER) The Abduction of Proserpine.
Etching, after 1516. 290x212 mm; 11 1/2x8 3/8 inches, thread margins. First state (of 2), before the Funck number lower center. A brilliant, dark, early and richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
Provenance: Heinrich Buttstaedt, Berlin, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 319); Adalbert von Lanna, Prague, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2773). Bartsch 42.
