Live auction - Lot 51
One of the largest prints by the Goltzius school
[Dutch]
Tabula Cebetis.
1592
Hammer price: €
3.400
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Engraving, 66,9 x 124,6 cm, laid paper, signed and dated "Jacobus Mathamius Goltzij privignus sculp. / Anno. 1592.", Latin text (flattened vert. and hor. folds, some split, few sm. tears, some spots, few sm. parts missing on platemark).
Good impression with margins. Laid down on cardboard. Framed.
Monumental engraving from 3 large plates. Impressive allegory of the path of life with numerous figures in the Northern Mannerist style. 1st state before the later address of Bernardus Kleynhens (1702-1779).
Ref. New Hollstein (Jacob Matham) 194.I (of II).