Georg Pencz - Sophonisba drinking the poison - C. 1539 / Description: Sophonisba drinking the poison; seated in profile to right; at right the messenger bearing the news of the defeat of Carthage. Engraving made by: Georg Pencz, titled and signed PG on the stone block. c.1539 / Dimensions: 18,80 x 12,40 cm / Condition: Good early impression of this larger print, on good thin laid paper trimmed on plate border and watermarked (Reichsapfel). Remains of two hinges on the backside of the print. / Literature: Landau 1978 / Catalogo completo dell' opera grafica di Georg Pencz (90) ----- Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (134) ----- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.343.82) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1539 360
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