AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)
Lot 238

AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)

Sixteen Boats of different Structure

Closed10 December 2019

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GBP 6,250

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AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)
Sixteen Boats of different Structure
engraving, circa 1565, watermark Gothic P with Flower, a very good impression of the first state (of two), trimmed to the borderline below and to or just inside the platemark elsewhere, with the usual vertical drying fold, some short printer's creases in places, otherwise in very good condition
Plate & Sheet 217 x 301 mm.

Unidentified, initials deB. in blue ink (not in Lugt).

Specialist note

Bastelaer and Hollstein's former attribution of this print to Frans Huys has been disputed and was eventually rejected by Nadine Orenstein and Manfred Sellink in New Hollstein, in 2006.