Live auction - Lot 174
[Flemish]
The story of Elisha.
Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1579
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
3 (of 6) engravings, 21,2 x 29 cm, laid paper with watermark, wide margins, signed and numbered in plate "M. de Vos inve" and "Aux.4.vents" (repaired tear on verso 2nd plate, some sm. tears in margins, not affecting the image, numbered in brown ink at upper right corner).
Very early and splendid impressions of the first state (of 4), published by Volckxen Diericx the widow of Hieronymus Cock, at the Antwerp publishing house "Aux Quatre Vents". The first three plates of the series. Each with 4 engr. lines in Latin in lower margin.
Ref. New Hollstein (De Vos) 122-124.1. - Hollstein IV:5-6. - Riggs 196.