Thessalus and Brito

2 engravings, 19,5 x 26,2 cm, laid paper with watermark, signed in the plate at lower left "Hieron. Wierix sculpsit" (some minor foxing, left edge from Thessalus-print sl. frayed from old binding, nice margins).

Under passe-partout.

Plates 5 and 9 from the series "Equile Ioannis Austriaci", with portraits of all the horses in the Royal stables of Don Juan of Austria (430 pl.), after drawings of Stradanus (1523-1605). Other prints in the same series were engraved by Hendrick Goltzius. Splendid impressions of the 2nd state (of 4).
Ref. New Hollstein (Wierix), 2204.2. - New Hollstein (Stradanus), 535.2 and 555.2.