Live auction - Lot 89
[Flemish]
C. 67 religious prints.
Late 16th-early 17th c
Hammer price: €
800
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engravings, few hand-coloured, various dimensions, laid and wove paper (some trimmed inside platemark, some with ms. notes in pen in margin or on verso, few stains, few browned).
Includes mostly good, but also later impressions. Loose or hinged.
Large collection of Wierix prints with mostly religious subjects, but also Michelangelo's Last Judgment and the portrait of Christophe Plantin. Some plates printed in the 18th c. and used as in memoriam cards.