Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

36 c JOHANNES WIERICX (after Dürer) Knight, Death and the Devil. Engraving, 1564. 248x190 mm; 9 3 / 4 x7 1 / 2 inches, narrow margins. Second state (of 5), before any address lower right. Crowned coat-of-arms with two diagonal bands and the attached letters BB watermark. A very good, dark and richly-inked impression of this scarce engraving. After the same-titled engraving by Dürer (Bartsch 98). The prodigious Wiericx (1549- circa 1618), from a family of Antwerp and Brussels printmakers, made this engraving at just age 15. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1484. [2,500/3,500] 37 c JOHANNES WIERICX (after Dürer) Melencolia I . Engraving, 1602. 240x187 mm; 9 3 / 8 x7 3 / 8 inches, thread margins. A good, well-inked impression of this scarce engraving. Mauquoy- Hendrickx 1556. [3,000/5,000] 36 37