Live auction - Lot 121
[Flemish]
The Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars.
SADELER, Johannes. DE VOS, Maarten (after)
Hammer price: €
550
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Antwerp, Johannes Sadeler, 1585
5 engravings, ca. 23,5 x 24,5 cm, laid paper, signed: "Joan. Sadler sculp. et excud. / M. de Vos figu.", Latin title at top centre and Latin text in lower margin (sm. damages on edges, some trimmed to platemark, sm. parts missing, sm. tears).
A popular and often copied series.
5 prints from a series of 8 on the "Seven Planets" (without title plate, Sun, Mercury). Personifications of the planets with the zodiac signs and bird's-eye views below. Influential series after which 5 different copies are known.
Ref. Hollstein XXI.168-169.517-524. - Hollstein XLIV.275-276.1380-1387.