Lot n° 399

10 engravings. 6 (of 9 ) Muses from the series "The Nine Muses", c. 1592, 25 x 17 cm; engr. number and sign. in lower part, lettered in Latin in lower margin, 2 lines in 2 cols. Later impression. Present are : Urania, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene,...

Estimation : 200 / 300
Adjudication : 240 €
Description
Clio & Calliope. Ref.  Hollstein VIII, p. 34. - Portrait of H. Goltzius, in profile to right, set in an oval frame, c. 1574, 29 x 20 cm; lettered in the oval border.  Used as a book-illustration. - En ego maturos Autumnus profero fructus (...), c. 1600, 22,5 x 15,7 cm; engr. name in plate lower r.: "HG. Inue. I.S. sculp.". Autumn of the series of the 4 seasons. - Allegory of Labor, c. 1565, 21 x 14,2 cm; lettered in lower center "HG Inve", lower right : "I. Saenreda Sculp.". Good copy. Stains of tape on top margin. Later impression featuring a family engaged in scholarship and industriousness in interior. - Qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto natus ex Maria virgine, s.d., 15 x 10,2 cm; monogr. in lower center.
We join : Galle, Ph. after Van Heemskerk, M. - Hanc popularis Honos (...), 20,5 x 23 cm (trimmed to the borderline). Later impression ? No. 5 of a series of 6 prints published in "Divitum Misera Sors". (11 pcs)
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