Live Auction 7886Old Master Prints
Jost Amman (1539-1591) and Georg Mack the Elder (active circa 1556-1601)
Lot 26

Jost Amman (1539-1591) and Georg Mack the Elder (active circa 1556-1601)

Rudolphus II (Holl. 201.66)

Closed7 December 2010

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Jost Amman (1539-1591) and Georg Mack the Elder (active circa 1556-1601)
Rudolphus II (Holl. 201.66)
etching with extensive handcolouring and gilding, 1583, without watermark, a strong, early impression of this extremely rare print, finely handcoloured in red, blue, green, yellow, white and brown and heightened with gold by Georg Mack the Elder, initialled and dated GM 1589 in gilt at lower centre, trimmed fractionally into the image all around, with several small paper splits and tiny losses, the colours fresh and in good condition
S. 188 x 133 mm.

Specialist note

Georg Mack the Elder came from a family of illuminators, letter painters ('Briefmaler') and publishers in Nuremberg. Part of the family business was to paint and gild prints, and Mack's refined works were highly valued at the time. There is evidence that the printmaker Jost Amman and the illuminator Georg Mack had a business agreement, yet this plate from the unpublished series Icones Ducum Bavariae is one of only a few surviving examples of their collaboration.

The print shows Rudolph II (1306-1353), Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, and his second wife Margarete of Sicily (1331-1377), daughter of Frederik II of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou.