Details
MASTER FG (ITALIAN, ACTIVE MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504-1570)
Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons
engraving, circa 1540-50, on laid paper, with an indistinct circle watermark, a very good, dark but probably later impression, the second, final state, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on all sides, fractionally into the subject at upper right, the sheet thinly backed, otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 242 x 242 mm.
Provenance
The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth; their sale Christie's, London, Old Master Prints from Chatsworth, 5 December 1985, lot 106 (£ 3,000).
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
Literature
Bartsch 3
Details
MASTER FG (ITALIAN, ACTIVE MID-16TH CENTURY) AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504-1570)
Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons
engraving, circa 1540-50, on laid paper, with an indistinct circle watermark, a very good, dark but probably later impression, the second, final state, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on all sides, fractionally into the subject at upper right, the sheet thinly backed, otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 242 x 242 mm.
Provenance
The Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth; their sale Christie's, London, Old Master Prints from Chatsworth, 5 December 1985, lot 106 (£ 3,000).
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
Literature
Bartsch 3
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