Live auction - Lot 555
[Woodcuts]
91 large and smaller woodcuts.
[Germany or Low Countries, ca. 1520-1530?]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Mounted on 38 ff. of 19th-c. folio-size paper, ca. 47 x 25,5 cm.
Mod. quarter cloth, marbled paper on covers. In good condition.
Nice collection of woodcuts, some with multiple scenes or illustrations, cut out from one or more unidentified literary or historical works.
Prov. Pencil notes on final leaf (pastedown) "anno 1482" and "Vente Nic. de Keyser", probably referring to the 1888 sale of the library of the Antwerp history painter Nicaise de Keyser (1813-1887).