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16th Century German School
Lot 30

16th Century German School

A Survey of Castles along the Rhine and elsewhere

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 6,875

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16th Century German School
A Survey of Castles along the Rhine and elsewhere
19 etchings, circa 1590, watermarks Large Eagle watermark (similar to Briquet 867, Solothurn 1588/09) or Lion holding a Shield (not in Briquet), good impressions of these extremely rare, unrecorded prints, mostly printing with light tone and guidelines in the text, with wide margins, previously bound and some sheets still attached, some foxing and staining mainly in the margins, generally in good condition
P. 120 x 212 mm. (and smaller); S. 177 x 242 mm. (and similar) (19)

Specialist note

This group of extremely rare and previously undescribed etchings consists of prints from two distinct series, probably by two different hands. The first depicts castles in different areas of Southern Germany, including Burg Horneck, Schleiden, Willenberg, Hohentwiel, Fleckenstein, Kronenburg, and Kloster (?). The other series of slightly larger plates shows castles and landmarks along the Middle Rhine, including Rheinfels, Burg Katz and the Lorelei, Ehrenbreitstein, Cappel (?), Loewenstein, Braubach, Milem (?), Liebenstein, Drachenfels, Pfalzgrafenstein and Kaiserswerth.