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Albertus Durerus, Norebergens.
Albertus Durerus, Norebergens. Vir virtute tumque arte insignis habetur, Tentonica gentis gloria summa suae. Contulit huic Caesar insignia Nobolitatis. Tantus bonos artis, famaque tanta viri. [in image at top] cum privilegue ord gen foeder inf germ province Pars II hexcud
Hh [Hendrick Hondius] excud.
Engraving, 195 x 125mm (7¾ x 5"). Trimmed to image and laid on album paper. Slight staining and creasing in the margins.
Half portrait of Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), right profile. Durer was one of the most important printmakers of the German Renaissance and had close relationships with artists of the Italian Renaissance, evidence of which can be found in the classical motifs peppered throughout his art.
[Ref: 53813]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Henricus Hondius.
Henricus Hondius. Engraveur, et tres bon Deseyniateur Natif de Duffel en Brabant l'an 1573 de Nobel Origine il at apris a deseyneier chez Ieronimus Wierix , il excercoit ausi en Orpherie, mais il fut tout iour plus incline a la gravure il at ausi apris la Mathematique, la Geo:metrie, Perspective, Architecture, et Fortification chez le Vieux Iean Vredeman Vrise, et aupres Samuel Marelois homme sans pareil, ou il a tout bien experimentez monstrant per les eures, q'on voit de luy en estampes, maintenant il demeure en la Haye.
Henricus Hondius delineavit. Fredericus Bouttats fecit.
Ioan Meyssens excud. [n.d. c.1622.]
Engraving. 165 x 114mm (6½ x 4½"), with wide margins.
Portrait of Dutch engraver Hendrik Hondius (1573-c.1650), holding tools in left hand, looking at viewer. From Cornelis de Bie's "Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const".
[Ref: 28941]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Orphée.
Orphée.
Hondius pinxit. Le Bas direxit.
à Paris chéz Le Bas P.r Graveur du Cabinet du Roi, rue de la Harpe. [n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. 470 x 310mm (17½ x 12¼"), on wove paper, large margins. Smattering of tiny worm holes.
Orpheus playing a lyre surrounded by animals and birds including camels, horses, elephants, swans and parrots. Originally published c.1760.
[Ref: 45382]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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