Georg Pencz - Artemisia drinking the ashes of her husband - C. 1539 / Description: Artemisia at right drinking the ashes of her husband. She is seated among shields, a cuirass and sword; the maid at left pouring the the ashes into the cup held by Artemisia; through a window at right view of the mausoleum and Artemisia burning the body of King Mausolus on a pyre. Engraving made by: Georg Pencz, titled in a cartouche on top and signed PG on the shield. c.1539 / Dimensions: 19,50 x 13,50 cm / Condition: Good early impression of this larger print. With full plate border and tread margins on watermarked laid paper. Remains of hinges on the backside. Overall in a very good condition. / Literature: Landau 1978 / Catalogo completo dell' opera grafica di Georg Pencz (91) ----- Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (135) ----- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.343.83) / Medium: Engraving /Circa: 1539 360
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