Engraving, circa 1535-40. 90x60 mm; 3 3/4x2 1/2 inches, thread margins. From the Planets. A very good impression of this extremely scarce engraving.
Ladenspelder (1512-circa 1575) was a German printmaker active in Essen who is best known as a meticulous copyist (though this engraving and the series of which is part are of his own invention). He engraved a complete set of Tarocchi cards, known as the E Series of Mantegna Tarocchi, which is still among the earliest known extant sets of these scarce Italian Renaissance cards, and also produced numerous skillful engravings after Albrecht Dürer's (1471-1528) master prints. Bartsch 13.
