Live auction - Lot 127
[German]
"Pontificum Romanorum series chronologica".
[Augsburg], s.n., [1728]
Hammer price: €
280
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Engraving, 50,2 x 58,4 cm, laid paper, old hand-coloured (minor defects, tiny pinhole).
Curious allegorical portrait of a pope, in fact the embodiment of a historical timeline, whose cassock is described with a list of past popes, including their dates of death. From a set of 4 plates included in the Atlas Novus.
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