Live auction - Lot 161
[French]
Description des Anciens Bains Romains.
Paris, Jaspar Isaac, 17th c
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
Engraving, 16 x 39,7 cm, laid paper, unsigned (toned paper, some uneven inking in text margin).
Under passe-partout.
Engraved copy by unknown French printmaker after an engraving by Johann Theodoor de Bry. Both are reversed versions based on a large woodcut "The Fountain of Youth", first published in 1531 by Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). With engr. text margin in French.
Ref. Bartsch 165 (Beham's woodcut). - Pauli 1120.
Prov. Albert van Loock (stamp on verso, Lugt 3756).
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