Old Master Prints
Old Master Prints
Giacomo Francia
Ornamental Panel, Upright (Hind 18 (B.M. 12))
No reserve
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December 10, 03:23 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Giacomo Francia
1476 - 1557
Ornamental Panel, Upright (Hind 18 (B.M. 12))
Engraving, 1510-30, a very good impression, the first state (of two) before Salamanca's address, printing with wiping marks and inky plate edges in places, on laid paper with an Anchor in a Circle watermark (cf. Briquet 484), framed
plate: 203 by 144mm 8 by 5⅝in
sheet: 242 by 167mm 9½ by 6½in
Ex coll. Cav. Gian-Carlo Rossi (L. 2212)
Arthur M. Hind identifies this plate as belonging to a series of twenty ornamenal panels, seventeen of which bear the initials of Agostino Veneziano. According to Hind in his catalogue Early Italian Engraving, "The designs undoubtedly belong to the immediate school of Raphael, possibly to some assistant such as Giovanni da Udine, who was responsible for much of the decorative painting of the Vatican Loggie." (p. 235).