Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 437

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WENZEL HOLLAR
Muff with a Brocade Band.

Etching, 1645. 76x72 mm; 3x2 3/4 inches, narrow margins. Ex-collection G. A. Cardew (Lugt 1134, verso); British Museum (Lugt 302 and 305, verso); and unknown collector, blue ink stamp with the initials "H. B" in a circle verso (not in Lugt). A superb impression of this extremely scarce etching.

This is a portion of the larger plate Muff and White Cloth, 1645.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. Parthey 1950.