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Ensign, Drummer and Piper
Details
HANS SEBALD BEHAM (1500-1550)
Ensign, Drummer and Piper
engraving, 1543, a very fine, early impression of the first state (of three), still printing with light wiping marks, with narrow margins, a flattened horizontal fold; together with The Guard near the Powder Casks, by the same hand, engraving, circa 1531-50, a fine impression of the first state (of two), with narrow margins; and Three Soldiers and a Dog, by the same hand, engraving, circa 1531-50, a very good impression of the first state (of two), trimmed to or just outside the borderline; all on laid paper, without watermarks, generally in good condition
Plate 70 x 48 mm., Sheet 72 x 50 mm. (Holl. 201)
Plate 45 x 30 mm., Sheet 46 x 32 mm. (Holl. 200)
Sheet 44 x 29 mm. (Holl. 199)
(3)
Ensign, Drummer and Piper
engraving, 1543, a very fine, early impression of the first state (of three), still printing with light wiping marks, with narrow margins, a flattened horizontal fold; together with The Guard near the Powder Casks, by the same hand, engraving, circa 1531-50, a fine impression of the first state (of two), with narrow margins; and Three Soldiers and a Dog, by the same hand, engraving, circa 1531-50, a very good impression of the first state (of two), trimmed to or just outside the borderline; all on laid paper, without watermarks, generally in good condition
Plate 70 x 48 mm., Sheet 72 x 50 mm. (Holl. 201)
Plate 45 x 30 mm., Sheet 46 x 32 mm. (Holl. 200)
Sheet 44 x 29 mm. (Holl. 199)
(3)
Provenance
Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (Lugt 971); this impression possibly mentioned in Hollstein's census of sales (sold in 1926 for Mk. 107 to Hampe). (Holl. 201)
Literature
Bartsch 198, 197, 196; Pauli, Hollstein 201, 200, 199
Special Notice
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