Military Trophies.

2 engravings, 17 x 25 cm, laid paper with Italian watermark (wide margins, partly reinforced).

Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.

2 engr. from a series of 16 military trophies where each plate shows 2 trophies next to one another. Several plates from the series are signed "Ant. Lafrerii formis 1553", thus referring to the early works published by Antonio Lafreri after the start of his joint business with Antonio Salamanca who also published Agostino Veneziano's ornament prints. The first, pl. 8, has a cuirass seen from behind and the second, pl. 14, trophies with a breast plate and a ram's head. Our pl. 14 does not show Lafreri's imprint, thus indicating that we may have here an earlier or later state compared to Bartsch.
Ref. Bartsch XV.441 and 447.