"The Four Disgracers".

4 engravings, diameter 17,5 cm, laid paper, signed (browned, sm. foxing, some tears, sm. repairs, trimmed at framing line).

Pasted under passe-partout.

Mirrored copies after the famous series of Hendrick Golzius (1558-1617) with new text margin. These extraordinary tondos are some of the the most daring works to have resulted from the brief collaboration in 1588 between Goltzius and the painter Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638). Given their popularity, the prints in the series were quickly copied by other engravers such as Jacques Honervogt, who was born in Cologne, but was active as a printmaker in Paris from 1608.
Ref. New Hollstein (Goltzius), 325-28. - Bartsch III.79.258-61.