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Armed Four-Master sailing towards a Port
Details
AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569) BY FRANS HUYS (CIRCA 1522-1562)
Armed Four-Master sailing towards a Port
engraving, circa 1560-62, on laid paper, watermark Small Coat-of-Arms surmounted by a Coronet, a very good impression of New Hollstein's second (of four), with the birds added at right but before the plate was cut down, with margins, a long oblique crease across the sky and masts, a vertical printer's crease at lower right, some pale foxing and staining, framed
Plate 291 x 220 mm., Sheet 310 x 238 mm.
Armed Four-Master sailing towards a Port
engraving, circa 1560-62, on laid paper, watermark Small Coat-of-Arms surmounted by a Coronet, a very good impression of New Hollstein's second (of four), with the birds added at right but before the plate was cut down, with margins, a long oblique crease across the sky and masts, a vertical printer's crease at lower right, some pale foxing and staining, framed
Plate 291 x 220 mm., Sheet 310 x 238 mm.
Provenance
William Joseph Sterling of Keir (1911-1983), Dunblane, Scotland; Christie's, New York, 14 May 1991, lot 16 ($ 11,000).
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bastelaer, Hollstein 98; Lari 95; New Hollstein 63.
Special Notice
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