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MASTER MZ (MATTHÄUS ZAISINGER) The King's Sons Shooting their Father's Corpse.
Engraving, circa 1500. 177x247 mm; 7x9 3/4 inches, thread margins. Indiscernible (eagle ?) watermark. Ex-collection Nathaniel Smith, London, acquired from the Woodhouse sale, 1801, according to an inscription in ink, verso (Lugt 2297, verso). A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce engraving.
The subject of this engraving is not the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, as Bartsch erroneously identified it, but one based on a tale in the 13th-century Gesta Romanorum (see Shestack, Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe, Washington, DC, 1968, catalogue number 147).
Lehrs cites only approximately 25 impressions. Bartsch 4; Lehrs 21.
