Live auction - Lot 272
[Dutch]
The Eight Wonders of the World.
Antwerp, Theodoor Galle, 1581-1633
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
5 hand-coloured and gold-heightened engravings, 21 x 25,5 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate "PGalle Fecit" (laid down on thick paper mount, 3 prints with Dutch ms. writing in brown ink translating the Latin text margin, trimmed outside the platemark).
Under passe-partout.
The Pyramids, the Zeus statue in Olympia, The Temple of Diana in Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Colosseum in Rome, from the series of the Eight Wonders of the World (8 plates). Good impressions of the 2nd state (of 4), with publ. address of Theodoor Galle. Probably later colouring.
Ref. New Hollstein (Heemskerck): 513, 515, 517, 518, 520.2.