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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PIETER BRUEGEL (after) Hope. Engraving, circa 1559. 223x286 mm; 8 3/4x11 1/4 inches, thread margins. A superb, well-inked, dark and early impression with strong contrasts, with little to no sign of wear and with the guide lines for the text in the lower margin distinct. Small coat-of-arms watermark.
Acquired by the current owner from the estate of Eileen Jermain Slocum, Newport, Rhode Island (Slocum was the great granddaughter of the bibliophile/print collector John Carter Brown, whose collection formed the base of the Brown University Library). Hollstein 133; Bastelaer 133; Lebeer 128.
