?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PIETER BRUEGEL (after) Temperance.
Engraving, 1559. 209x287 mm; 8 1/4x11 1/4 inches. Indiscernible small jug (?) watermark. Ex-collection Edward Peart (Lugt 892, lower left recto). With narrow to thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark, with the subject preserved and thread margins outside the border line and without the text below. A brilliant, early, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts and with the ink from another impression, set under this impression after printing, on the verso. Hollstein 138; Bastelaer 138; Lebeer 37.
