Live auction - Lot 98

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The Eight Wonders of the World.

GALLE, Philips. After Maarten van Heemskerck

€ 400 / 500

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Lot description

Antwerp, Philips Galle, 1572

7 (of 8) engravings, 21 x 25 cm, laid paper, some with watermark (double C), signed in plate "Ph Galle fecit / Martinus Heemskerck Inventor" (all trimmed to the borderline, heavily creased, some brown stains).

Under passe-partout.

Although the original antique wonders only counted 7, Van Heemskerck added the Colosseum in Rome as an eighth wonder. The plate of the light house of Pharos is missing.
Nice grey impressions of the
1st state (of 3), before the publ. address of Theodoor Galle, and with sm. defect in the first plate (i.e. The pyramids). With engr. text margin with Latin verses by Hadrianus Junius.
Ref. New Hollstein (Galle):478-484.1.

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Lot 98

The Eight Wonders of the World.

GALLE, Philips. After Maarten van Heemskerck

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