Diana GHISI
1547 Mantoue + 1612
Engraving after G. Romano

Très belles épreuves coupées à la marque du cuivre. Ensemble de quinze planches et une autre sans rapport. Contrecollées sur deux feuillets vergés.

Ercole BAZZICALUVE
ca 1600 Pise + active in Florence on 1638
Etching

Ercole BAZZICALUVE
ca 1600 Pise + active at Florence in 1638
Etching

Bartch n°10; Gnann n°6; expo “The Renaissance of etching” n°59 (?/IV?). Belle épreuve coupée irrégulièrement à la marque du cuivre du 2e état (?) sur 4, le cuivre usé mais probablement avant les retouches. Importantes amincissures; finement et anciennement doublée (?); courte déchirure dans l’angle supérieur droit.

Le Blanc nr 1. Very good impression on strong laid paper. Two small tears reinforced in the letter and one at top, outside the engraved part; some other small defects mostly marginal. Small margins on three sides.

Giorgio GHISI
1520 Mantoue + 1582
Engraving after Michel Ange

Lewis and Lewis nr 5 (IX/X). Good impression du 8 or 9e state (of 10), with G. J. de Rossi’s address. Breaks and folds, mostly marginal and on the edges; vertical median crease; two or three tiny tears renforcées au centre. Good margins. Edition end 17e or beginning 18e century. Watermark : lily flower in […]

Giovanni Battista MERCATI
ca 1600 Borgo S. Sepulcro + après 1637
Etching

Hind nr 15 (I/VI). Very good impression of first state (of six) before Bouchard and Gravier’s address. Some pronunced folds and creases mostly at top, slight vertical median crease. Small margins. Rare. Watermark : lily flower in a double circle.

De Vesme nr 7; Rizzi nr 33 (II/II). Very good impression of 2nd state (of 2), avec la signature de l’artiste. Maintenue by some points de colle on old laid paper; some small accrocs sur les bords and some creases. Thread margins. Plate to the set of ten “Caprices”. Ex collection A. M. Zanetti (Lugt […]

Giovanni Benedetto CASTIGLIONE
1609 Gênes + 1664
Etching

Bartsch Ill. nr 50 (II/II). Good impression trimmed about 7 mm in width and 4 mm at top, of 2nd state (of 2), the plate trimmed. Tip of the upper left angle gauche missing; small thin paper areas in the left angles; horizontal fold open at right; some small corps étrangers (inherent to paper ?). […]

Rizzi nr 47. Good impression on laid paper of 4th or 5th state (of 5). Slight horizontal crease. Edition about 1850. Good margins. Plate to a set of sixteen illustrating “Via Crucis”.

Giovanni Francesco GRIMALDI
1606 Bologne + 1680 Rome
Etching

Giovanni Francesco GRIMALDI
1606 Bologne + 1680 Rome
Etching