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Georg Pencz (1500-1550) A Collection of twenty-eight engravings Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) image 1
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) A Collection of twenty-eight engravings Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) image 2
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) A Collection of twenty-eight engravings Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) image 3
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) A Collection of twenty-eight engravings Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) image 4
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) A Collection of twenty-eight engravings Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) image 5
Lot 12

Georg Pencz
(1500-1550)
A Collection of twenty-eight engravings

Prints and Multiples
16 December 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Georg Pencz (1500-1550)

A Collection of twenty-eight engravings (Bartsch 37,70,72,73,79,81,84,87,88,97,99,101-4,110,116; Hollstein 49,82,88,109,111-115,120,122,123,125,131,133,136,137)
Religious and mythological subjects, including two from the Story of Virgil: Virgil suspended in a basket and The Courtesan punished, 1541, Aristotle and Phyllis, 1545, Parable of the Sower, 1534, Virginia killed by her father, 1546, three from Fables: Tamiris with the head of Cyrus, Paris and Oenone, Procris and Cephalus, 1539, six from Stories of Roman History, 1546, including Porsenna hears of Cloelia's escape, and Death of Lucretia, two from The Liberal Arts: Grammatica and Astrologia circa 1541, five from the series The Vices, circa 1541, on laid paper, good to very good impressions, some later impressions, mostly trimmed to the platemark or with thread margins, in various conditions

Plate 120 x 78mm. (4 3/4 x 3in.)(and smaller) (28)

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's London 8 June 1949 (B.7,75,76,99,101,102,103,14,15,16,17,18,19,70)
Sotheby's London 2 December 1948 (B.37,81,80,84,87,88)
Sotheby's London 25 May 1948 (B.73,93)
William Bell Scott, London, 1811-1890 (Lugt 2607) (B.37,84)
G.A.Cardew, London, 1865-1941 (Lugt 1134) (B.73,104,116)
D.U. - German Collection, 19th Century (Lugt 796) (B.81)
WB.Dukes, London, d.1942 (Lugt 2757a) (B.93)
Herman Marx, Surrey, d.1948 (Lugt 2816a) (B.73,104,116)

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