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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHANNES WIERICX (AFTER DÜRER) Adam and Eve.
Engraving, 1566. 245x192 mm; 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches, narrow margins. Strasburg Lily watermark. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression of this scarce engraving with very strong contrasts. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 54.
With—Three additional engravings after Dürer. Coat of Arms with a Skull * The Virgin and Child with the Monkey, 2 impressions. Various sizes and conditons.
Wiericx (1549-1620), an artistic prodigy from a family of artists and engravers, made several ambitious copies of famous Dürer engravings during his teens and at the beginning of a productive artistic career.
