The course of human life.

FURNIUS, Petrus. After Stradanus

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Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1570

2 engravings, 22,6 x 30,5 cm, laid paper with watermark (Gothic P: Briquet 8808), signed and dated in plate at left "Io. Stradanus Fland.Invent."; at centre "H. Cock.excud. 1570"; at right "PF" (sl. grey paper).

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Plates 2 (Youth) and 5 (The choice of Virtue) from the series "The course of human life" (6 pl.) after designs by Jan van der Straet (Stradanus). One of the few series made by the Liège engraver Petrus Furnius (Pierre Dufour) for the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock and Volcxken Diericx. The only state.
Ref. New Hollstein (Stradanus) 272 and 275. - Hollstein VII:5.